Release Date: 16/03/2011

Record Lable:  DimMak/Influx/Alive 

             
 

                                  



With the world of music firmly focused on a certain band from New York, Scanners latest release Submarine could easily be washed away (that’s right, a nautical joke already). Scanners, like Julian and co. have taken 5 years since recording their last album, but with their new one that’s where the similarities end.

With their only previous LP Violence is Golden quietly being produced with a real lack of authority in the UK, they never really got off the ground. However the new diverse sound that Submarine brings stirs a sense of something exciting, and not a little dark.

Opening with a harmonised Klaxons style vocals; Jesus Saves ignites the intrigue that this album will continue to create throughout. The polarised difference in sound can be seen perfectly in the songs Sick Love and the single, Salvation. The former is just an upbeat and catchy jingle that will stick in your head for days. Then you’ll be hit by the hauntingly beautiful vocals which fill Salvation from beginning to end.

With several emotions flowing through the tracks people may ask, on more than one occasion, why you’re looking so sad whilst you bust a move? With your toes tapping and your head nodding along to the beat you’ll be singing songs of heart ache and sorrow, though you will not care and that is the beauty of it.

Submarine is a surprising triumph, and even though the last few songs will leave you wishing they’d stopped at the moving Goodbye you will find its originality will not fail in making you listen again and again.

So whilst you all move your feet to the strumming of a guitar played by leather jacket wearing indie folk from across the pond, I’ll be crying with joy and laughing with sadness at the new alternative sound that Scanners have produced.



7/10
 



Words- Samuel White

Posted In Album Reviews, Mar 18 2011. Words - Gobshout Team 2