Single: Schwab - Little Beats/Got The Greed

Label: Star Harbour

Released: Out Now!

“Bluuuuues explosion!”…Is what Jon Spencer would shout after giving this track a spin.  He wouldn’t be wrong in his random shouting of ‘blues explosion’ either.

Schwab, who come from the dark and murky depths of East London claim that they “could be the answer to our musical troubles”. I doubt this very much; as if that’s the case then a thousand and one other bands could also claim the very same thing. You see, Schwab seem to have stolen somebody else’s song, but God dammit, whoever’s song they stole they’ve done it proud.

Typical toe-tapping blues is number one on Schwab’s agenda and they pull it off. The opening track ‘Little Beats’ is a cracking opening track, they aren’t messing around, and they’re straight in there. The vocalist sounds like he’s unspeakably drunk on a cocktail of various drugs, he screams out the rock ‘n roll clichés without hesitation before the song explodes in to a rather splendid mix of Velvet Underground, Jon Spencer’s Blues Explosion and one for the modern day kids, The White Stripes, but with far more vigour. 

The other track on the single is ‘Got The Greed’ which takes off nicely from where ‘Little Beats’ left off, only taking the foot of the accelerator slightly, but not enough to stop any frenzied dancing you may have burst in to during the previous song.

Rock ‘n roll, blues, indie-pop and even a hint of dance are contained in this split single. I’m sure you already have several records in your collection that sound remarkably like this, but I say ‘fuck it’, have one more.
 

7/10, Richard Collings