god love you for a liar

Rumour has it that Pete and the Pirates A&R peeps are lurking about tonight - and maybe they’re thinking what I’m thinking, that these chaps have “next”, “big” and “thing” transmitting from their teeth like some kind of coded alien message. Thankfully, that doesn’t mean that they sound like The Feeling. Songs like ‘Upsticks’ are closer in spirit to The Killers before they started shagging U2. The music is driven by an underlying insecurity, which propels it onwards and upwards. Singer Gareth Moss (he of the 50 yard stare) lurches about like a glam rock scarecrow, high fiving all the notes that get spines tingling. Some of his falsetto moments can recall Matt Bellamy, but hopefully he’ll iron those into a more personal signature. Spiky riffs and complicated compositions are yadda yadda yadda these days - for most bands they’ve become mandatory requirements. But what GLYFAL have in their DNA is ideas - and they shoot ‘em out like fireworks. Catch them live, and you’ll catch a fiendish proposition.