aaamusic | On 04, Mar 2012

On their debut E.P, Crowns manage to do something that many bands that share their folk punk tag fail to do throughout their entire career. Which is to sound rootsy and (heavy inverted commas here) “Authentic”, without ever trying to do anything beyond write great songs, in many ways writing the best songs you can is the way you pull of sounding like anything but by the sounds of it, very few bands have genuinely taken this to heart. For a band so early on in their career to know this, and pull it off as magnificently as this is rather incredible. Coming across like a cross between Social Distortion and Mumford and Sons, the Full Swing E.P is by turns unabashedly passionate, melodic, romantic, poetic and populist, y’know, the kind of things that the best Rock n Roll should be. With the kind of folk music making the rounds nowadays, and the rise of the likes of Chuck Ragan, Dry The River and Frank Turner, they should be cult superstars by the end of the year, check this E.P out and be able to say that you were there, if not since the start, then definitely before most!

 

Will Howard