Strings of Seville

Strings of Seville deliver pile-driving alternative rock with waves of warm fuzzy guitars and added art-rock shapes. Yes, they are delightfully noisy, but they always stay on the right side of melodic and distil the essence of what makes a song great, which stops them from ever vanishing up their own proverbial - often the downfall of so many bands of this ilk. The obvious My Bloody Valentine references are there in the wall-o-sound guitars, but their more direct approach recalls the thick slabs of sonic power of Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins.