Exit Calm

Exit Calm
 Amazon then you are not alone. Owing to many management difficulties and a lack of promotion, the band’s self-titled debut, released in 2010, garnered critical praise all across the board, but failed to propel the band to the heights that they so desperately deserve.
However, I’m sure you all got the memo about ‘guitars being cool again, man!’ so it’s with great relief that Barnsley’s finest export (sorry Darren Gough) have returned with a true-to-form, thunderous single in ‘The Rapture‘, taken from their forthcoming second album.
With its apocalyptic title and confrontational lyrics (“Your stolen dreams of living life from rags to riches are nothing but a joke, left me in stitches, you’re in the dictionary next to what a bitch is“), there’s nothing being held back in the world of Exit Calm in 2013, as frontman Nicky Smith’s rasping vocal soars over the top of a wall of ever-psychedelic guitars that have come to be synonymous with the band’s output, courtesy of technical six-string wizard, Rob Marshall.
Harking back to an age when shoegaze was a statement of intent, not a statement of fashion, ‘The Rapture‘ sees the band growing out of the tiresome Verve comparisons, and leaping into the world of what can only be described as ‘space-rock’. Anyone listening will be instantly infected with the whole song, leaving them gasping for more reverb-laden guitar riffs and scream-from-the-top-of-a-mountain choruses.