More on: Attack + Defend

Label: Boobytrap
Release Date: 27/02/06
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Boobytrap spring another surprise with the latest EP from Welsh rock n' roll tooters Attack + Defend on the imaginatively cluttered 'Owl EP'. In the Boobytrap tradition, beeping pacey drumbeats and less than faultless vocals provide oodles of fun on 'More', while pat pat folk poems provide excellent variation with sprinklings of shrilling birdlike synth.

The guys portray every rural bod's first daunting days in the smoke with '24 Hour City' - bluesy with whirling touches - and there's a faltering exploitation of mobile phones and hair straighteners on the pulsating 'Posh It Up' before 'Dreamfit' dares to "shimmy on the dance floor" with a brisk beat that even Girls Aloud wouldn't say no to.

And if five tracks of half mystic, half futuristic blast aren't enough to entertain, there's a pretty sweet picture of the four piece posing with the EP's namesake on the back cover. Friends with birds of prey? Now that's rock n' roll.

Siân Rowe

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