A solemn and tremendous ode to not having a good time, listening to Kissing on Camera’s ‘Lil’ Horse, from our perspective at least, is the best time.
Wasting no time in following up last month’s ‘Corner Couch’, ‘Lil’ Horse’ sustains the quartet’s deliciously earnest virtues – a thick-cut, doleful Irish accent decrying above a grunge’d up mixture of lugubrious slowcore and fractured emo. In gleeful contrast to the trauma and struggle chronicled in the lyric, the music itself offers a profoundly uplifting, and energising release: boosted guitars envelope you like a cuddle from the gods; drums and cymbals smash and rattle like a clarion call for change. And by it’s rapturous finale, the lasting feeling is akin to marching resolute in the pouring rain, where you’re soaked through but you’re almost home and you couldn’t give a flying fuck anymore.
Kissing on Camera play We Are So Young 37 at The Social on 25th March. Free Entry. Tickets here.
Photo by Aoife Breen
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