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BASEMENT – WIRED – ALBUM REVIEW
The stop-start career of Basement may be a factor for their lack of major mainstream push, but ask any of their contemporaries about them and you’ll soon understand the esteem that they are held in.
Their somewhat underground following has started to head above ground in recent years with their latest spell of activity hitting the right spots no doubt aided by the ongoing nostalgia of 2000’s alt rock and the explosion of the melodic hardcore scene.
Not content to rely on their past work however the band are back again with their new album, ‘WIRED’. Their fifth studio album, it’s their first in some eight years so is a big opportunity for them to harness this newfound growth in adulation.
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As a band who has been pigeonholed in many different ways during their time, it’s no surprise that this album again displays varying influences. More than any other influence though, the biggest is clearly Basement themselves. A doubling down of sorts as they obviously attempt to capitalise on what has brought them again into the consciousness of the UK alt-rock scene.
In general, this works very well and will consider to be mission achieved. That said there will likely be those who will feel underwhelmed; instead wishing that the band had sought another boundary pushing affair.
It’s one of those ones times for a band though which will prove that you can’t please everyone. This is a collection that will get conflicting commentary but in the cold light of day the charm that made fans fall in love with the band is ingrained in this album.
It’s therefore a timely reminder that before the modern wave of emo-tinged hardcore was this little band from Ipswich called Basement and they still have an innate ability to make you feel something.
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