LABEL: ELECTRIQUE MUD
Recorded over a three-day period, ‘Sticks and Stones’ is the sound of four Belfast lads marrying their retro urges together playfully for 72 hours, producing one very complete album in the process. From opener ‘Too Many People’, which recalls the finer moments of guitar-led Britpop, with a good-spirited additional spit of brass throughout, to the beautifully tender ‘Things Will Always Be The Same’, to the unapologetically Beatles coloured ‘Yesterday Today’, The Vals have created an album that always changes to the appropriate gear when required, making all 12 tracks a very inviting listen from start to finish. Catchy, melodic and well flavoured with a familiarity that’s comforting, ‘Sticks and Stones’ may say nothing new but some things are worth repeating.
7/10
DOWNLOAD: ‘’’WHERE I’M MOST ALIVE’, ‘THINGS WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME’, ‘’’YESTERDAY TODAY’
FOR FANS OF: THE BEATLES, SUPERGRASS
Recorded over a three-day period, ‘Sticks and Stones’ is the sound of four Belfast lads marrying their retro urges together playfully for 72 hours, producing one very complete album in the process. From opener ‘Too Many People’, which recalls the finer moments of guitar-led Britpop, with a good-spirited additional spit of brass throughout, to the beautifully tender ‘Things Will Always Be The Same’, to the unapologetically Beatles coloured ‘Yesterday Today’, The Vals have created an album that always changes to the appropriate gear when required, making all 12 tracks a very inviting listen from start to finish. Catchy, melodic and well flavoured with a familiarity that’s comforting, ‘Sticks and Stones’ may say nothing new but some things are worth repeating.
7/10
DOWNLOAD: ‘’’WHERE I’M MOST ALIVE’, ‘THINGS WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME’, ‘’’YESTERDAY TODAY’
FOR FANS OF: THE BEATLES, SUPERGRASS
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