IF ever I’m in need of a blast of post-hardcore, and I can’t find that At The Drive-In album, I can always reach for United Fruit’s 2011 debut Fault Lines. Now if I want something that’s still guitar-heavy but more melodic, and I seem to have mislaid my Husker Du collection, I can press play instead on United Fruit’s follow-up Eternal Return.
There’s 100 per cent improvement here in production values, plus hooks and song structures to match the band’s omnipresent energy and attitude. Horizons are blown open right from the start, as Ghost Inside Your Head sets a frisky tempo. Every other track proves the Glasgow quartet are now committed songwriters as well as first-class purveyors of ferocious genre blowouts.
Catch them live at Tunnels, Aberdeen (tonight), St Luke’s, Glasgow (Saturday), Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh (Sunday) and Tollbooth, Stirling (May 21).
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