Built on a Weak Spot

This is a fine little seven song 12” EP that I’ve been sitting on for awhile from the Polish group Setting the Woods on Fire, which also serves as the bands debut in fact. When it was passed along to me originally I think I was kind of prepared to hear some sort of high tempo retread screamo nonsense, but was met with something a whole lot better. Setting the Woods on Fire kind of tiptoe around the area of early to mid-nineties emo, but this carries a bit heavier post-grunge feel to it than what I think you’d typically hear with something like this. With that I mean the guitars sound plentiful without them really being so, while still creating these big loud ringing sheets of distortion from time to time giving the impression that they might have more than few amps or so around them. It’s the sort of slowed down meaty influenced rock that kind of dominated the previous decade, but without some of the cheesier aspects that occasionally came with it. Solid stuff throughout from this outfit, look forward to hearing more. In the meantime do check out a tune from the bands self-titled EP below out now on Promise! Promise!.

Setting the Woods on Fire – It Ends Today [MP3]

For those interested in picking the album up it appears to be available currently only through strictly no capital letters in the UK. I think they have or had plans to get this available in the US. It is available digitally through the usual suspects Emusic, Amazon, etc. if anyone prefers to go that route or seek as an alternative.

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