Published on Tuesday, 21 February, 2017 - 17:05
From their album "Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect", “Flame” sees the Reading quartet - Dom Cordell, Oscar Lulu, Ally Baty and Haydn Evans - pick up where they left off: crunching, muted guitar drives the action forward as Lulu’s vocal tears through with the help of twitching lead punctuation.
”Hold my flame and set alight / Hold my fire screaming inside” rings the chorus, bringing to mind the likes of Prides and Cut Ribbons and the fired-up track burns towards its fist-clenching, festival ready (the band play Reading and Leeds this year) conclusion.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddTMB8vOt8