Scottish band Facial Slurs weigh in at the punk/rock end of alternative music. Playing live since the autumn of 2015, their in-your-face rock has assaulted audiences in their native Edinburgh and further afield for the last few months. Reportedly formed due to their dissatisfaction with the current scene, the band have done their best to blow away the musical cobwebs by putting the heart back into music. Their songs are fast and gutsy, the lyrics delivered with a sneer. This might seem like a bad thing in the ‘polite’ musical society we find ourselves part of in 2016, but to the contrary, Facial Slurs and bands like them provide a breath of fresh air, dispelling the studied indie blandness of many bands playing today.
Both title track ‘Dull and Ordinary’, with its fast rock rhythms and fine half-shouted vocals, interspersed with slower interludes giving the vocals further definition, and ‘Oligarchipelago’, with a more melodic background for the punk feel of the vocals, make ‘Shut Up and Eat Your Tea’ an interesting proposition. There is a roughness to the music, but it is well played and beautifully constructed, tracks to get the blood pumping round your veins just that little bit harder. Having had the chance recently to see a short set by the band, I can only say that catching them live will liven up and brighten your evening no end, as they dance over the dying embers of what is and herald the way to a brighter musical future. Check this very new band out on their Facebook page and on Bandcamp and be part of the revolution.