Supporting The Wombats on a sweaty, unseasonably warm early October evening Morning Parade took to the stage. They blew me away with a pounding, yet tuneful collection of soon-to-be-indie anthems with some undercurrent dance beats.
After the gig I soon learnt that I had to satisfy myself with putting a note on my calendar for a distant album launch date and purchasing a few 7” singles of theirs.
Fast-forward to March and that debut album, Morning Parade, is finally available. The verdict? It is a stonker! After only a handful of listens the tracks work their way in under your skin.
Headlights will make you sing ‘Like a rabbit in the headlights’ for days…..
The driving rhythms and atmospheric, electro influenced stadium-indie and heartfelt lyrics are convincing through the entire collection. There will always be the stand-out tracks on any album, Us & Ourselves and Under The Stars in this case, but there are really no weak offerings on Morning Parade.
This debut delivers, just like their live shows and I would tip Morning Parade to to explode over the radio and festival circuit this summer. A truly memorable album!
