Joyzine
Joy zine has just published a review of Rumble. I don’t think they quite understood it, but they still respect us for trying to be different, and we can get a good selective quote from it.
Rumble begins like some lo-fi alt country beauty, while hinting at a slight danger of becoming stale. However, this does not happen. Instead, it prefers to suddenly erupt into an altogether more lively and rocky explosion.
From then on you should be sure to remain unsure, as all manner of sounds and styles merge and you’re unlikely to guess what’s around the next corner.
Their downfall is that the Psychotic Reaction try just too hard to be off the wall, so the record ends up sounding contrived. There’s an excess of novelty present, and while you sense the band’s intention was to create serious and high quality music, when they are singing about topics such as what’s lurking under the stairs it’s going to be hard to achieve that effect. There are some good ideas here, though at the moment Rumble just sounds too sporadic. A few gems nestle within it, but on the whole it’s a tiring listen.
Kudos to them for trying out something new, of course it isn’t going to be easy but it’s better than playing safe and sticking with the rest of them. All it needs is a bit of working through and sorting out so that the Reaction can find their feet. Though Rumble has been around for a little while, so maybe the band have already got themselves up to scratch. Definitely ones to watch out for.
Review by Nathania Hartley