Here’s an interesting way for a band to come to life\u2014San Diego’s Xenos were actually the outfit that the low budget indie-rock thriller Fanboy <\/i>was based on. Here they offer us four tunes from the soundtrack sessions, as they essentially leap from the silver screen and into real life with a quick EP of their eclectic post-punk. <\/p>\n
\u201cLeft To Die\u201d opens the listen and makes an immediate impression with its thumping drums, thick bass lines and swirling guitars, as the booming vocals allow for a firm 90 seconds of exciting garage-rock meets post-punk.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Isn’t Anywhere\u201d follows and is a calmer affair, where soft singing and a bit of mystery surrounds the traces of pop melodies that enter alongside the diverse range that front woman Araby Harrison hits.<\/p>\n
The back end of the listen includes \u201cCold Blue Violence\u201d and \u201cThe Loom.\u201d The former is a bit subdued and burns slower with a very precise rhythm section that injects thicker moments as well as calm, dreamy bouts. The latter and final track is the best, and is quite pretty and textured with a very tuneful version of indie-rock, but not without some scrappy moments that only give the setting that much more allure. <\/p>\n
The band consists of Arabella \u201cAraby\u201d Harrison (Jejune, And\/Ors, Bartenders Bible) on vocals, Ben Johnson (Tourettes, Lautrec, The Long & The Short Of It, director of Fanboy<\/i>) on drums, Alia Jyawook (Ilya, Hot Nerds, Scary Pierre) on bass, and John Cota (Rats Eyes, Hostile Combover, Death Eyes) on guitar. <\/p>\n
These players have exceptional resumes in the area of Southern California hardcore, post-hardcore, punk and emo, and anyone willing to spend time with this very limited 7\u201d (250 copies!) would likely also appreciate an LP if that\u2019s an option at some point, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10821],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46554","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-xenos","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46554"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}