Music Reviews
Artist:
VoxtrotTitle:
FirecrackerLabel:
Playlouderecordings
Voxtrot is an indie pop rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas, USA. They are a band of the modern times in that their popularity has spread via fan blogs and internet review sites as well as good old fashioned word of mouth from people catching them live. What has helped them bubble along is that they produce a friendly blend of jangly indie guitars atop a thumping, choppy rhythm section.
Already several releases into the career in the States, they are still a relatively new entity on UK shores, and so the single Firecracker released on 27th August is a taster for their eponymous debut album which will follow in September.
Lyrically Firecracker could be described as plaintive, or depending on your perspective, could also be described as whingey. ‘ I’m chopping noses just to spite my face, Break you down on the record company’. This kind of angst at getting signed is unlikely to wash with any struggling artists out there still looking for an elusive deal. However, elsewhere the track does have an accessible deftness and brightness that would explain how fans have been won over. They are not a band that take several listens to ‘get’, and this immediacy has obviously paid dividends at their gigs, with the aforementioned fan blogs carrying the band to wider attention.
