In 2008, Northern Irish quartet Pocket Promise released their debut EP Waving at Strangers. This was an introspective, occasionally moody affair, and you’d have been forgiven for thinking that this was heavily foretelling of their future direction.
However, a year or so on, they’ve only gone and served us with a right old curveball in the form of their first single ‘I Burnt the Roller Disco’. Just when we might have been expecting more gorgeously haunting melodies, they’ve slapped us round the face with a slice of the purest guitar pop. In fact, it’s a song which wouldn‘t sound out of place on the first Soulwax record.
Where Waving at Strangers’ five tracks were mostly piano-driven, ‘I Burnt the Roller Disco’ skips along on a playful guitar line. The cheeky melody is an interesting counterpoint to Cormac Fee’s ever-wistful vocals, both of which underpin the none-more-catchy chorus.
When it comes to pop music, brevity is usually a virtue, a point which is clearly not lost on Pocket Promise. Knowing the value of conciseness, the song ends without warning, leaving the listener eager for more.
With their two releases so far, Pocket Promise have shown us they are equally adept with gentle brooding and glitzy rabble-rousing. Consequently, their debut album which is due to land in the summer is a tasty prospect.
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