Unsigned Sunday: Morning Smoke – ‘DWYD’
On a gorgeous sunny Sunday, as we have, you might expect us to plaster kettle drum nonsense or up-stroke guitar all over our pages for today’s Unsigned Sunday feature.
But we are realists (or pessimists, I’m never quite sure) here at Far Out, so as Britain bathes in those beautifying cancerous rays and prays for Monday never to arrive, we are treating you to a slice of Britishness, in all its greying and ambiguous glory.
Morning Smoke is a band hailing from Brighton, the epitome of English Seaside glamour.
Their track ‘DWYD’ is the pick for this week’s Unsigned Sunday spot. With all its subtextual referencing and glorious sun-hazed guitar, it makes for a perfect Sunday’s thoughtful listening.
Arriving with a punk pounding of the drums, which maintains the urgency of the track and dances alongside the lead line, we are jabbed by the needling guitar, which pin-pricks every note with the same sharpness of thought that is displayed throughout the lyrics.
Dancing between atmospheric and delicate post-punk and a ferocious attitude that is doused with a sardonic antipathy for modern life.
It’s an attitude and an ethos that are always vying for attention amongst the various layers of the band, and because of it, ‘DWYD’ showcases the huge potential of a band that was not just one of the highlights of The Great Escape Festival in their native Brighton but is slowly starting to gather attention across the Nation.
