The first time I actually heard of Noah And The Loners was when Steve submitted a request to review one of their recent gigs. Editing his article and then seeing the EP pop into our inbox seemed like a sign, so I slapped it onto the digital equivalent of a turntable and… here we are.
Noah, and indeed the Loners, are frustratingly young for the talent they exude but given their ages there is perhaps a good reason for the frustration, anger and reluctant acceptance that explodes from each of the five songs on A Desolate Warning. While the songs are upbeat in musical tone, the lyrics certainly aren’t. They hark back to the bile-spitting days of classic punk, a snide look at the state of the world from the viewpoint of someone who’s not so much living in it as stuck with it.
The songs are pretty short with the longest by some stretch being “You Make Me (Fall Apart)” which is seconds shy of four minutes. Three are only 2 1/2 minutes in length and the punchy “Just Kids” weighs in at a flyweight 84 seconds. The thing is, you don’t need a long time to get your point across when you present it bluntly. And that’s what Noah and the Loners do – get a point across.
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A Desolate Warning is a cry of frustration from a foursome who represent a large number of our population – young adults. There’s a lot for them to be pissed off about, and I’m rather glad they’re attempting to get it out of their system by turning to music. If they channel this anger into their live show as well as I think they do then I’m not surprised that Steve was raving about them.
While their style of music is rooted firmly in the past, they’re absolutely a band for today – and the future.
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