Duels - The Bright Lights & What I Should Have Learned - Nude
Northern five-piece Duels certainly seem to live up to their name. Previous singles Potential Futures and XX show they have as much of a knack for stadium stomp-alongs as fellow Leodensians Kaiser Chiefs when they want, while What We Did Wrong is surely a
Northern five-piece Duels certainly seem to live up to their name.
Previous singles Potential Futures and XX show they have as much of a knack for stadium stomp-alongs as fellow Leodensians Kaiser Chiefs when they want, while What We Did Wrong is surely a Britpop-era also-ran.
Further evidence of sub-genre scatter can be found in claustrophobic last single The Slow Build, and the entertainingly frazzled, if derivative, Animal.
Meanwhile, Pressure On You is a beat-heavy take on New Wave that almost succeeds. Duels spread their talents a little too thin, but there is plenty of potential under the creative confusion.
Worth keeping an eye on.
3/5
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