There’s something to be said for a good musical dynamic – a rejection from the very banal and trite idea that a winning band formula consists of guitar, bass and drums (kudos to those mavericks of the 60s who really let loose and spiced it up with a rhythm guitarist who played guitar AND dabbled in keys). The Kills had it when they launched themselves as a hot two piece way back in 2003 with their lo-fi rumbling recordings. Gossip continue to have it through Ditto’s notorious Southern blues drawl which saunters out defiantly over their irresistible disco hits.  Even PJ herself strives for it, album after album, with her eclectic love of eccentric instruments and unorthodox tones.

Hot and heavy upstarts, The Broken Seas know a thing or two about dynamics too it would seem. Formed just this year, they are a three person sauce pot of energetic rhythms, swaggering guitars and gutsy lead vocals. Their debut three track EP, co-incidentally all up on their bandcamp for your aural pleasure, showcases the Norwich trio’s ability to wrestle 70s rollicking swank with a modern age cool. There’s even an element of Ms Harvey herself in opener ‘Breaking Night’ and its haunting vocals that swell in the verse to a heady chorus caterwaul.

But it’s more than just lazy female fronted references for this band as there’s a definite hint of 70s Led Zeppelin macho nonchalance here too in the bands garage rock riffery and growling lead vocals; sung as if by a female Plant in all his golden tressed glory days. When recently asked in an interview what their main objectives were as a band, The ‘Seas list the need to play their music ‘very loud’ whilst encouraging fans to ‘dance like no-one is watching’ and to ‘get loose’. And, after hearing the dizzy breakdown of final track ‘The Way I Am Living’, (all clattering drum fills and dirgy guitar wails) it really would be hard not to do just that.

With a slot at this year’s Dockville Festival in Hamburg straight off the back of their debut performances, The Broken Seas are crashing back onto home soil in October with a host of UK dates that are set to leave a salty taste of grit and blues grind in the air.

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Cheri Amour

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