GUILTY OPTICS – “Downstroke wizardry”

What you may need to know…

01. Last time we checked in with GUILTY OPTICS (their all-caps, not your writer’s), they’d just released their first single in a while, ahead of completing work on their debut album.

02. While we await more news/noise on this topic, the band are currently planning more national touring in 2017.

03. Streaming above is And So It Goes, the follow-up to last year’s streaming single The Kayapo Ghosts, premiered last week at The Thin Air after a prolonged wait, judging by the given upload date on the band’s Soundcloud.

04. Headlining a gig at the Tivoli Backstage tomorrow night at 8pm. We covered the other two veteran bands on the bill this week, also – Ten Past Seven and Elk supporting.

Thoughts: Punky, angular noises, delivered with earnestness and aplomb. Grand.

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Guilty Optics – new album enroute from post-punk power trio

What you may need to know…

01. Purveyors of a “unique style of down-stroke wizardry”, Guilty Optics are an important branch of the Irish DIY family tree, with ex-/current members of Elk, Crayonsmith and All Tvvins, and sharing releases with BATS, Hands Up Who Wants to Die and the dearly-departed C!ties.

02. Emerging from a quick side-project and becoming a going concern in 2009, the band have made the rounds of aforementioned split releases, and the current line-up has an LP on the way, recorded with Ben Moore (Rocket From the Crypt, Pinback, Hot Snakes, Switchfoot, Ravi Shankar, etc.).

03. Streaming above is new single The Kayapo Ghosts, the opening track from their forthcoming new LP, which centres on the plight of the Kayapo tribe of the Amazon.

04. Their next excursion goes down on August 19th, at Dublin’s Bello Bar (fka The Lower Deck), Portobello harbour, Dublin 8 ahead of more regular touring to accompany the album’s release this winter.

Verdict: A concise, energetic offering that nicely sets the tone for their impending debut platter.

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