SCENE & HEARD
The King Kong Club (semi-final 1) The Mercantile Friday 25th, January 2013
Clonmel is home to the next band here tonight. RESPONSIBLE LOOKING FREAKS began things with “Signal” and the backing track to it on the intro is something that is an impressive feature. That places how everything on it builds and the gapped approach spreads it out to see three different styles of play on show inside the one track. The robotic sounding of it is another interesting quality that sells it here. Then they played the very uplifting “Limelight” next. This has a very west coast American sound to it that forms it very well. They have a nice little number on their hands here with this one and it is gifted in how great it sounds, The substance to it is what makes it subjective in the live delivery and they line it all up nicely. Then another very American sounding track in “Ding Dong” was their final offering. It is laced with scattered and heavy sounding aspects that work off a three chord structure. It is a catchy little number that translates quite well and the Frank Baum inspired lyrics to it are also an interesting injection into the mix here.
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