Flashguns - Passions Of A Different Kind

Flashguns are taking their time; they’ve been under the radar for a good few years now and we’re still yet to hear an album from them.

EP ‘Matching Hearts And Similar Parts’ was a good pit stop, providing melodic, angsty indie-pop hooks, with sufficient individualities to make it worth all our time. ‘Come And See The Lights’ - lead single from their debut, due this summer - marked a change, dropping the xylophone for a more muscular sound; a shock, but a welcome one for most.

Now onto their current single, album title-track ‘Passions Of A Different Kind’. It doesn’t have the stadium rock credentials of its predecessor but it more than makes up for this in charm. The verse features jangly guitars, not dissimilar from The Smiths’, which breaks into a sing-your-heart-out chorus of ‘I found this passion, a different kind’, and it all works rather well.

It wouldn’t be a far cry to lump them in with touring partners Bombay Bicycle Club, both being intimidatingly young bands that make alt. indie with a twist; hopefully Flashguns will go on to achieve the same levels of success. This song does very well to whet our appetites further.