If you do, then there really isn’t much not to like about Bullet Union. Meshing a large amount of influences into fast-paced, snotty, post-hardcore songs with a bit of an arty edge like The Icarus Line did when they were a very exciting band, Bullet Union have chopped together half an hour of fun, heavy, and generally ample music through inter-chopping guitars, loud screams and a simple rhythm section.

Fast time-changes, scream-along music but without the distortion is the order of the day here: you only have to listen to opener “Yak Yak Yak You’re Fired!” and you’ll instantly want to start energetically flinging yourself too and fro to these warped kids’ music...

Although short in supply, these nine tracks have a very similar tone that sits happily all the way through it, which is fine for a fast paced, fairly hyped debut record of a band such as this. In fact, the first few times you listen to it you won’t even really notice what’s happening, just letting yourself get caught up in the music. Here’s hoping a band with such potential find their way into a bit more variation next time, because right now, this sounds fine as a prolonged demo, LP if you will, but when more people are going to take notice of the band (which will happen) they’ll want to know what the fuss is about. Tracks like “Sant Feliu”, a five and a half instrumental which works on familiar, pleasant things you’ve heard before but in a new way, are definite highlights and provide variation and sounds just as convincing as an Icarus Line.

A collection of distorted tunes, conceived from somewhere rather evil, shines a bit of hope of things to come, and there isn’t much this album can do wrong, other than that it doesn’t really feel like an album, more a collection of songs from a group of young musicians who have suddenly got the demand for an album just over a year into their existence, which is fine, for now.

Adam Turner-Heffer