Allies

Within the first minute of hearing The Lobby EP from whoever the Fuck Allies are, I knew who they sounded like. Not only was I dead on in my first assumption, but I could hear my assumption throughout the entire fucking EP.

I won’t make you wait, Allies sound like the perfect smooshwich of Mutemath and Solid Gold. Take the smooth balls chill shits of Solid Gold and toss them under the loungey sass throat of Mutemath and you’ve got fucking Allies.

Opening track “Laid Back” is a sunny Saturday afternoon spent not paying attention to the fact you’re wearing warm ups and house shoes in public. It’s slow sways and nods, enjoying a nice unintelligible falsetto seemingly out of nowhere whenever the chorus rolls back around.

“Get Back Kids” is a serious nod towards Solid Gold’s Bodies of Water album, and it’s fucking awesome. It’s stoner swank. Yet, while it feels lazy, the guitar work on this sumbitch is crispy chicken skin and shit bro.

The musicality on The Lobby feels originally comfortable as shit, while nothing seems forced or rushed or anything that might take away from the fact that this band sounds like they’ve studied a song or two from Oklahoma’s The Hero Factor. Seriously, while all of the instruments on “Rare Form” meet in the middle together to form a small slice of awesome, each instrument on its own is worth singling out and listening to separately.

In the end, Allies have great legible rock vocals, guitars that tickle me pickle, a bass player that seems to pillow twiddle each track appropriately and some keys that don’t have that cheap feel to em. While the EP is a quick listen, if you aren’t hearing the potential in this shit, you’re either mad at your man tits or you’re not paying attention. Fuck you Tim.