POST WAR YEARS – The Black Morning
Posted by AlMachine on Tuesday, April 29, 2008


Another day, another group of musicians with origins in the math-rock and dare I say it, emo field, mixing dance rhythms and palpitating keyboards in like The Rapture and Radio 4 never existed.

Okay, so perhaps that summarisation is a little unfair on this Leamington Spa based four-piece but aside from the fact that said keyboard sounds owe more to early nineties Italo House music than any technologically advanced synthesiser, Post War Years aren’t really offering anything that different from the rest of the Foals-influenced crowd.

Title track ‘Black Morning’ is passable in the sense that the melody drifts along in an albeit pleasant manner, while the vocal harmonies at least sound structured as opposed to being shambolic or rushed, but beneath all the veneer and sense of oh-aren’t-we-the-clever-ones running through all three songs there isn’t actually an awful lot left to remember or ultimately care about when all’s said and done.

5/10

Dom Gourlay



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