Brigade - Meet Me At My Funeral

Brooding melody and intensity, immediate sounding guitars that layer in perfect harmony with the vocal are the order of the day for the latest release of Vex Red/Crackout/Halo era-esque British Rock. Brigade are offering nothing new to this dated genre, a revival, perhaps but nothing catchy enough to rival anything Biffy Clyro released many moons ago on their criminally underrated debut ‘Blackened Sky’.

‘Meet Me At My Funeral’ is an intense and listenable song and the influences of Aerogramme, Biffy and more are abundantly clear, with pulsating bass right up to the softly softly lulling break down, where soaring delicate vocal and a hint of glockenspiel break through the gloom like a shaft of light in a suffocating room. The fall away vocal of “Do this on my own” is a heavy sigh of resignation. Brigade are a focussed and driven band and that alone, sets their stall out as ambitious and hungry and worthy of appreciation with the right promotion.

Here is to a nugget of edgy British Guitar rock and here is hoping we don’t have Hundred Reasons Mark II.

Reviewed by James Ainsworth

Monday 4th September 2006

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