Vacuum Irony

"At its best new wave / punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it and do something good besides."
- Lester Bangs [legendarily outspoken music journalist and critic]

The Scare could live and die by that quote - not even 18 months together, they've been attacking curious audiences through a barrage of angular guitars, short spurts of stabbing vocals, a raging rhythm section and synth lines that sit somewhere between haunting melody and classical rhythm. Which is what makes them so damn interesting!

It isn't the fact that they play punk, dress punk or even subscribe to the DIY aesthetic of punk - they're punk in the way Marlon Brando was to film. It's their approach, their apathy to the conventional, the blandness of society and mundane grind of their everyday lives that gives their creative outlet its meaning.

While much of this comes across as hype and rhetoric, it's important to understand The Scare isn't the perfect equation, not all the pieces fit into the right places and it's this unpredictability which makes them so appealing.

So is The Scare punk rock? Well, put it this way - they're everything you think that they aren't and sound nothing like you think they do. If you have heard the first Scare EP, it's safe to say that, before listening to the latest EP, the firing five-track EP 'Vacuum Irony', The Scare are the best band you have never heard.