Wolf Am I - Lead The Way

The initial burst of ‘We’re Alive, We Are The Future’ bodes we’ll for this debut featuring former ‘Kill The Arcade’ members but throughout there’s a nagging feeling of familiarity. It takes a few minutes, and couple more tracks, to put the pieces together.

There’s an obvious debt to bands such as Panic at The Disco (ground zero is ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’). Emotional soul-baring is littered with bands like these and many, many more – My Chemical Romance, Thursday, The Get Up Kids, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, At The Drive In etc. – so you’re obviously going to land slap bang in the middle of this (SCREA)EMO mix.

That’s not a problem if there’s enough to distinguish you from the crowd. It takes the wry lyrical dexterity of PATD or the anti-emo, pop-punk, goth vamp cool of MCR to rise above the vast sea of angst-lite bands out there and Wolf Am I are at least searching for their niche, the reflective ‘Armageddon, Come’ or triumphant ‘Lex Talionis’ being the best examples. So whist it’s not nearly enough to sustain an album at a gig you’d still go batshit crazy whatever they play, if that’s your skeleton print bag.

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