Grieving – Demonstrations EP

Grieving are a quartet from Cambridge, UK that formed in 2015 and Demonstrations is their debut EP. They have been steadily leaking the tracks that make up Demonstrations on their bandcamp and the complete five track EP will finally surface at the tail end of the July 2016. Grieving have been steadily building a reputation through regular live shows and they’ve gained airplay on national radio in the UK on BBC Radio One.

Demonstrations opens with My Friend, The Ghost, this starts the EP in an understated manner with a laid back guitar riff that builds to an impressive chorus and it ends in a full post hardcore attack that is continued on Ownership, this is a much more accessible track and it features an impressive angular post punk guitar riff. All five tracks on Demontsrations vary in style, No Sleep is the obvious crowd pleaser on here, it borders on pop punk with it’s steady chugging riff, albeit one that has a much more spiky quality than you’d expect from that description. Little Armoured veers away from their previous style and is features a more experimental indie rock style, which for some reason reminds me of the Pixies. Demonstrations closes with my personal favourite, Warmest Jets, which is a return to more familiar territory and boasts an infectious guitar hook that leaves you wishing they’d recorded just a few more tracks. 

Their choice of band name is somewhat misleading, I was expecting something heavy and very dark, what you actually get with Demonstrations is an impressive combination of post punk and post hardcore stylings, they incorporate these styles and blend them with the noisier end of indie rock into what is an impressive self released debut EP. I would certainly recommend fans of these genre’s investigate this release, their originality and the quality of the songwriting that is displayed on Demonstrations is something that marks them out as a band to watch. 

Grieving will be playing The Blue Moon in Cambridge, with support from Goldblume and Gutters, on July 30th to celebrate the release of the EP.

Demonstrations will be released on July 29th 2016 on CD and pay what you want download and will be available direct from Grieving here