Less Deceived – We Could Find New Ways To Walk Home EP

Yorkshire trio Less Deceived came into being in the summer of 2014 when the four original members decided to move away from their heavier roots and shift up a gear to play punk rock, this line up released two well received EP’s, It’ll Never Get Better Than This and Average Songs About The Best Days Of Our Lives. The band then hit a tipping pint as two members left the band and moved abroad. A new guitarist was swiftly recruited and Less Deceived have continued as a trio and have now released the first EP from their current incarnation, We Could Find New Ways To Walk Home.

The three track EP opens with The Inevitable Song About Trains, this is a fine energetic slab of anthemic punk rock with a fine and stirring chorus. That Shit’ll Kill You, my personal favourite from We Could Find New Ways To Walk Home, contains a killer riff and mid way through there’s an epic breakdown, throughout this number there are impassioned vocals and you can sense the same kind of energy that bands like The Bouncing Souls convey. LDNY closes the EP in a mellower fashion, before the brakes come off and it picks up the pace and builds up to a frantic finale.

We Could Find New Ways To Walk Home contains an influence of introspective emo-tinged punk akongside the upbeat infectious energy of punk rock, which is the overriding influence on this EP. The three songs are done and dusted in just under ten minutes, but it’s a damn fine frantic ten minutes. This is in no way just punk by numbers, on the shorter numbers you pick up elements of their punk influences, but the blend of styles and influences, especially on LDNY, means that they have a sound and style of their own that comes across nicely on what is an impressive independent release.

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