Eat Your Heart OutEat Your Heart Out - that's a pretty apt way of putting it.
This young punk five-piece from Newcastle have been dishing out their upbeat, vocal-driven tunes for a couple of years now, garnering them touring spots alongside some genre heavyweights and picking up a swag of loyal supporters through blistering live shows of their own. Eat Your Heart Out's first EP gave us a taste of their knack for playful, hooky, steady punk-rock ditties; their latest is bursting with that same energy, fun and flair, but with a sharper lyrical edge.
Mind Games again hits the nail on the head in terms of monikers - there's an incredibly visceral element to Caitlin Henry's lyrics delving into mental states, relationships and emotions, and you just cannot help but be swept away by it. In Rock Bottom she demands, "Take my hand/When things get hard/We can meet in the middle/If it's not too far," and asks to "clear my conscience" in Conscience featuring Movement's Patrick Miranda. Not only do the lyrics shine but also her clear, straight vocal throughout is an anchor for everything around it. Clean guitar riffs and neat kitwork make it a pretty steady ship regardless, but tracks like Landslide, where Henry pitches high and low, shine the spotlight on such a raw talent.
