The Gap Year Riot - These Streets Never Sleep

They inject enough grit and gristle...

Posted Thursday, 10 June 2010 in

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The Gap Year Riot

The Gap Year Riot - These Streets Never Sleep

Rating: 5

On their debut EP, Glasgow’s The Gap Year Riot! walk a fine line between credible, if not fairly uninspiring, piano driven power-pop and the kind of synthetic and emotionless sounds that the likes of Go:Audio and Scouting For Girls try to pass off as genuine music. Thankfully The Gap Year Riot! do, for now at least, only flirt with the dark side. On the likes of ‘3+3’ and ‘Put Down The Knives’ they inject enough grit and gristle to make you think that, given a few years to mature and a stronger set of songs, they could yet be a pop rock band worth lauding. Until then, we’ll just have to keep our fingers crossed.

Chris Hidden

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