ILL WILL and The ‘Sulphates’ Single.
ILL WILL – Bath, England, United Kingdom.
(Cover) Photography: PointBlankPhotography.
Bath isn’t really somewhere you would normally associate with up and coming new music but if my almost eight years living in this city has taught me anything, it’s that an assumption as general as such is really, very, very wrong.
Not only does Bath attract talent from both it’s Universities, the surrounding towns and some occasional big players but perhaps most importantly it near-constantly has an active seen and live shows again importantly majoritively made up of its home-grown talent. Enter ILL WILL and the deceptively heavy ‘Sulphates’.
‘Sulphates’ is their latest single in what seems a very short but active period for the band. Here, their clear adoration of thick down-tuned lightly distorted riffs, Blues-reverb and flirtations with Grunge via their previous work is sat in perfect clarity. See ‘Scratches’ and ‘Crowd Surfer’.
ILL WILL it is fair to say, have their influential little fingers in a fair few varied stylistic pies and that is ever-so apparent in this latest single. The band’s music is littered with melodic-Pop sensibilities and they are clearly oh-so capable of writing Pop-Rock hooks and eventual hits but matching this is the deceptive yet also unashamedly obvious heaviness the band employ.
‘Sulphates’ is perhaps the band’s best work and is particularly notable for its vintage 90’s Pop-Punk charge crossed with the lighter end of Queens Of The Stone Age. Said tempo fuels not only the hook-laden chorus but also adds very welcome drive to the band’s shameless riffs closing an Alternative Rock track from a band you would quite possibly be a complete moron to ignore.
ILL WILL are a solid example of UK underground Rock. Keep an eye.
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