Over the past year, Manchester's Spring King have ascended from relative obscurity to being one of the most exciting and talked about new British bands. This was due in no small part to the acclaim they received from their two EPs and the strong reputation they've earned as a fantastic live band, but their popularity soared when their track City was the first song played by Zane Lowe on Beats 1.
A mere twelve days after the final date of their May tour, the festival-stealing performance at the Nottingham leg of Dot To Dot Festival (check out my review here http://beatsurrender.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/dot-to-dot-festival-nottingham-review.html), Spring King released their cracking debut album Tell Me If You Like To.
The album offers the strong, memorable song writing that has come to be expected from Spring King with singles City, Who Are You? and Rectifier bringing the sharp choruses and accelerating riffs that have made them live favourites while tracks like It's So Dark and Take Me Away shine light on the band's more atmospheric side.
Despite having a bigger budget at their disposal for the album, the band haven't done away with the frantic, DIY sound that made their previous releases so appealing. Front man Tarek Musa breaks the mould of other indie bands by being both singer and drummer, and as the driving force behind the project his drumming takes centre stage in their songs which gives Spring King a unique quality and sound.
Tell Me If You Like To is out now from Island Records. Be sure to catch Spring King on tour later this year!
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