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Title: Vacuum Irony
Release date: 5 June, 2006
Record label: Nomadic Records
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Send to a Friend"At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides." - Lester Bangs
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By that token The Scare has found a home in a musical world full of conventions. Not even 18 months together, they have been attacking curious audiences through a barrage of angular guitars, short spurts of stabbing vocals, a raging rhythm section and synth lines that sit somewhere between haunting melody and classical rhythm. It is this concoction that makes The Scare so damn interesting - yet few people get it… they remain out of synch with most of their contemporaries and few comparisons can be drawn with other artists. Even recent tour buddies The Blood Brothers, who The Scare are constantly compared to, actually sound nothing alike.
But it's the ideals that The Scare espouse that set them apart from their "punk rock" peers. It isn't the fact that they dress punk, play punk or even subscribe to the DIY aesthetic of punk. The Scare is punk – Punk in the way that Jay Adams is to Skateboarding or Brando was to Film, It's their approach, their apathy to the conventional, the blandness of society & the mundane grind of their everyday lives that gives their creative outlet its meaning.
Front man & self proclaimed “boy genius”, Kiss Reid, describes his journey: "Well I was found in a junkyard and started playing in bands when I was 13. Most of them didn't last due to the music being too difficult for people to comprehend and me finding myself in trouble a lot". As far as front men go, Kiss is as enigmatic and despondent as they come. On stage he is a possessed madman; off stage he is mostly quiet and reserved with a glint in his eye that says approach with caution.
The rest of the band - Liam O’Brien, Wade Keighran, Brock Fitzgerald & Sam Pearton – all subscribe to the same theory. The Scare isn’t the perfect equation, not all the pieces fit into in the right places. Truth is the band is so unpredictable that even as much as they could become the biggest band in the world they are just as likely self implode tomorrow.
It's that feeling of a band so on edge that creates an aura of misunderstanding around The Scare. They're not here to change your world! The Scare exist for other reasons - a way out... whether that be your way out or theirs.
So is The Scare punk rock? Well put it this way: The Scare are everything you think that they aren’t and sound nothing like you think they do. If you have heard the first Scare EP, it’s safe to say that before listening to the latest EP 'Vacuum Irony' The Scare are the best band you have never heard.
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