Once known as prime purveyors of tranced out spaced rock, London-based four-piece CuT return from a year-long hiatus as an altogether different sounding prospect. Their comeback single ‘Mouth To Mouth’ shows that along with a considerable personnel realignment has come a significant shift in musical focus too. Their trademark sizzling cauldron of overdriven and effect-processed guitars is still very much in evidence, but here it’s being employed in an altogether more ambitious and (whisper it) accessible songwriting frame.
The song announces itself with the kind of charging bravado that informed The Smiths’ ‘Hand In Glove’, and the energy never lets up, lending proceedings a breathlessly intense air. Their lynchpin, singer/guitarist Dan Gigaseri delivers an impassioned vocal about the nature of regret and wishing time could be turned back, contemplating the suicide of a close friend, so much so that it seems rather trite to also point out that it comes packed with a killer chorus that has ‘anthem’ writ large upon it in big black marker pen.
As comebacks go, this one doesn’t hold back an inch. Rather than a return to form, in fact, it feels more like the staking out of a bold new territory.
‘Mouth To Mouth’ is released on vinyl and download via Ra-Ra Rok Records on 3rd June. Check out the band on Facebook.
Live Dates:
20th May: Brighton The Alt. Escape at TGE, Bar Rouge
17th June: London Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
