Fear Of Music – ‘We Are Not The Enemy EP’ (Faster) Released 12/02/07

Don’t you hate it when bands of pre-pubescent kids still at school create a fury with their music? When they are adorned with praise, when they are attributed “the next big thing” tag, when they win big at ‘In The City’, a rock competition for new bands and then have to go to school and do their bloody GCSE’s? And don’t you hate it even more when they, like Fear Of Music, are actually pretty good?

Two years on, out of school and under the production of Dimitri Tikovoi – who has most recently been working with original Goth rockers Placebo and The Horrors – ‘We Are Not The Enemy’ is the second EP, a 3 track taster if you like,  before the debut album is unleashed later in the year.

It’s interesting that Placebo were mentioned as Jo Rose does have a familiar tinge to his voice, reminiscent of the eye-lined one. The guitar harmonics and riff driven opener ‘We Are Not The Enemy’ and the ssshhhh…..Coldplay-esque….infectious piano riff of ‘A Blueprint’ make for a sound that if nurtured in the correct way could be filling huge arenas. Not that they will or indeed should, merely they have the radio friendly frequency that would be suited to a Feeder or The Stereophonics support slot. 

Whether they can keep it up for a whole album is another matter but these days that really doesn’t matter, so many albums are awash with crap that a few, or even one decent song is enough to catapult your album sales through the roof and Fear Of Music will have more than enough in their cannon to do that.