Aniimalia
Pressure Points – Marshall Records
Aniimalia don’t sound like a two year old outfit from sleepy Somerset. They’re a pleasantly surprising bunch and their new EP is equally eyebrow raising. Pressure Points has the rich textures and quality writing you’d expect to find coming from an established act that’s had time to mature. It also has the kind of production normally reserved for major labels. Clearly something has aligned somewhere to bring these four people together to make music, and thank the gods it did! The slick guitar work is just powerful enough to cut through without overpowering. Rhythms are punchy with nicely nuanced changes of tempo. And the vocals are rich and warm. The building blocks are indie, rock and metal. You get hints of pop punk too. This is a thoroughly well thought out and in its own way highly progressive EP. If this is what Aniimalia are capable of straight out of the box you can only imagine how great they could become.
Review by Gary Trueman