Why We Run @ The Captain Cook, 14th Sep

“There are a few ways for bands to float my boat. The first and most common is to be loud, fast, angry, bonkers, or all four – that never gets old for me. The second, regardless of genre, is simply to be thoroughly enjoying yourself, which is a bit rarer, for some reason. Why We Run are squarely in the third, least common box, a band who come off like they care deeply for the craft of what they do, appealing to the brain as much as the bloodstream. This is precision craftsmanship, and the band really know their onions. The rhythms from the bass and drums are tight and mathematical, the melodies from the guitar and keys are by turns spidery and expansive, and all of it is covered by the delicate strength of singer Nic’s vocal. The set’s as well-constructed as the songs, starting off gosammer-thin, but getting meatier and meatier until the last two tear holes in the sky. It’s Big Indie, and while it’s not necessarily the sort of thing to get the heart and adrenalin pumping, it fires off the neurons in your head like thunderclaps.”

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