Single: Schwab - Little Beats/Got The Greed

Label: Star Harbour

Released: Out Now!

�Bluuuuues explosion!��Is what Jon Spencer would shout after giving this track a spin.  He wouldn�t be wrong in his random shouting of �blues explosion� either.

Schwab, who come from the dark and murky depths of East London claim that they �could be the answer to our musical troubles�. I doubt this very much; as if that�s the case then a thousand and one other bands could also claim the very same thing. You see, Schwab seem to have stolen somebody else�s song, but God dammit, whoever�s song they stole they�ve done it proud.

Typical toe-tapping blues is number one on Schwab�s agenda and they pull it off. The opening track �Little Beats� is a cracking opening track, they aren�t messing around, and they�re straight in there. The vocalist sounds like he�s unspeakably drunk on a cocktail of various drugs, he screams out the rock �n roll clich�s without hesitation before the song explodes in to a rather splendid mix of Velvet Underground, Jon Spencer�s Blues Explosion and one for the modern day kids, The White Stripes, but with far more vigour. 

The other track on the single is �Got The Greed� which takes off nicely from where �Little Beats� left off, only taking the foot of the accelerator slightly, but not enough to stop any frenzied dancing you may have burst in to during the previous song.

Rock �n roll, blues, indie-pop and even a hint of dance are contained in this split single. I�m sure you already have several records in your collection that sound remarkably like this, but I say �fuck it�, have one more.
 

7/10, Richard Collings