UNIVERSITY - McCartney, It’ll Be OK

Headspinning, full-throttle, and with absolutely no breaks, UNIVERSITY launch headfirst into a symphony of clashing sounds and melodies on debut record, ‘McCartney, It’ll Be OK’. Post-punk in places, straight aggro in others, this chaotic and cluttered yet malleable record throws caution to the wind as the quartet use their instruments to push their sonic boundaries and find beauty within the chaos they create. Their pursuit of sheer and utter sonic annihilation is soundtracked by pinch harmonics, chugging riffs, thudding snare drums, and guttural screaming. It’s intense, with the band showing no mercy as they push through. Sure, a more laid back approach is taken on ‘GTA Online’ and ‘Diamond Song’, but even that doesn’t last for long. It’s deceptive and unpredictable, a rollercoaster of sound that’s gone before it’s possible to question anything among its cart of instrumentals blasting forward. Opener ‘Massive Twenty One Pilots Tattoo’ and the following ‘Curwen’ barrel through the speakers, the wall of sound almost breaking glasses within a two-metre vicinity. Clashing, cluttered, chaotic, challenging, ‘McCartney, It’ll Be OK’ is a venture beyond the conventional consideration of ‘progressive’, one to simultaneously blow eardrums and provoke minds.