EP Review
Smudge - Where I Go At NightSmudge – Where I Go At Night

If you read our review of the debut Smudge EP ‘StayFeelRegret’ then you will know that we love these guys, the EP only features 3 tracks but the tracks were crammed full of brilliance, the songs were fast and melodic and frontman Jack Valentine beautiful clear vocals meant that you would be able to spot these guys from a mile off.

Well Smudge are now back with their second EP ‘Where I Go at Night’ and this time around everything is that little bit darker, the EP artwork is very dark looking, but then it should be judging from the EP title but even the music it’s self is that little bit more mature and darker, everything seems to be turned up that little bit louder and the production seems to be a tad more polished than on the debut EP.

‘Where I Go at Night’, opens with ‘The Thrill, The Ride’ which is easily the best track on the new three track EP, it opens with such passion and energy, Jack Valentine’s vocals sound better than every, they are still as clear and melodic as they ever were but this time around he sounds that little bit more serious, the twin guitar work is awesome with the way there are some fantastic sounding meaty guitar riffs and even a huge solo in the middle of the song, everything about this song is so good and well thought about.

‘Speechless’ starts off sounding like everyone’s favourite new genre of music with its electronic style introduction, compared to the opening track this is a more slow paced melodic track, it still packs a big punch instrumentally as these guys don’t like to lay off from the big guitar riffs and bouncy basslines in fact it seems like they thrive on playing them.

The last track on the EP is ‘We Are The Night’ the song opens with a big old melodic sound with its fast paced guitar riffs and Jack Valentine’s fast flowing beautiful melodic vocals, after a few listens of the song you will find yourself singing “We are, we are, The Night” along with Jack Valentine in the catchy manor he has adopted.

As I said before Smudge have the potential to be right up there with the heavyweight pop-punk bands and in fact I actually believe that they should be there as they have such a quality sound, their first EP was very much poppy-punk and a good introduction to the band and this time around with their second EP ‘Where I Go At Night’ Smudge are showing us how serious and hard hitting they can be, go and do yourself a favour and pick up this EP and make sure you listen to it at full volume for maximum enjoyment.

‘StayFeelRegret’ was good but ‘Where I Go At Night’ is fucking fantastic, if only we had a higher rating than 5 at Alternative Vision.

5/5

Review by Trigger
 Band Members
Smudge - Band
Jack Valentine (Vocals)
Danny Atom (Guitar, Backing Vocals)
Gary Star (Guitar, Backing Vocals)
Chris Catastrophe (Bass Guitar)
PK___13 (Drums)
 Track Listing
1.The Thrill, The Ride
2. Speechless
3. We Are The Night
 Band Related Links
Smudge Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?