The Days - No Ties

(Music Medication, March 17, 2009)

Single review

This music business thing, this obsession that grips and drives so many - when it comes down to it, the intro is the most important part of it all. It's a 15 second window that any band has to persuade listeners.

Pounding drums lead the way into chugging guitar on No Ties from Devon four-piece The Days. It's pretty good - rocking like Heavy Stereo - a spot of rock, a spot of glam.

And the the vocals come in, and it all goes off the boil.

Singer Luke makes a meal of the lyric, which is really just another take on an indie boy's boredom with his life. Vegetating in an office and planning his escape, Luke's world view stretches as far as a night out... and then he thinks about getting away from it all for a holiday.

If this all sounds a little pedestrian, that's because it is. "It's there that I start over/'Cos I can do much better" he asserts of this well-earned rest, before an upbeat guitar break.

A feelgood radio hit for the summer months No Ties clearly is - it's positive and relentless, much like S Club 7's Reach.

But it'd sound like so much more if only they'd stopped at the intro.