Gold Skies Ahead
Gold Skies Ahead is the indie rock band of Jimmy (Vocals), Kenzi (Guitar / Vocals), Jack (Lead Guitar), Joe (Drums) and Jonny (Bass) from Bedford in England.
Having been around for about three years now Gold Skies Ahead have honed their craft to a great extent. An American indie-pop sound to them sits strangely to my ears for a band based only a few miles from me, which they nevertheless serve up with a soubriquet of Brit-rock to throw the ears something new to grapple with.
Relentless percussion and bass are swathed with surfing serenades with a hint of Green Day….. Some may argue that the surfy happy plastic of the Californian band is edgy though why I can’t imagine, unless they have no sense of the value of music other than it comes with an endorsement, which I guess is partly to explain why I rail so much against so called ‘punk bands’ of an irrelevant age attempting to cash in – to me it is commercial tacky pop music of the MTV generation…. to get back to Gold Skies Ahead, who to their credit avoid many of the clichés, as underscoring the material is a sense of powerful rock engagement.
They are still in developmental stages and I trust they maintain credibility rather than chasing the A&R scorecard of the likes of Sony Music.
For now – some real joy to be had from their genuine sound, I fear however this is a band who will melt in to the pot of ’Those who forgot why they ever started to play’. I urge their fans to pull them back from that vortex of spiralling nothingness.
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