Just going to say this as a starting point: it makes everything so much easier to find when a band has a site, whether developed, or a facebook page or just a list of places where you can find their music and get hold of tickets. There's been so many bands where I've tried to have a look at them and given up because they make it into a scavenger hunt and, to be honest, if they're some band that I've never heard of before, there's no incentive to go through with it.
So what a relief it is that Follow You Home actually have a website, especially since I need to squeeze this review in between a whole lot of revision stuff that I should have done a while ago.
Who are Follow You Home, then? They're a five-piece made up of "pink-haired uber-vixen" Kayley Busby (vocals), Rich Davis (bass), Nick Ayre (guitar/vocals), Mikey Davis (guitar - and why are there so many bands involving brothers called Mikey . . . ?), and Tom Bradshaw (drums), hailing from Derby, near to, as they call it, "the spiritual home of rock that is Castle Donington". They claim to make something akin to punk, with references to bands such as Alkaline Trio and Brand New, and with a repeated emphasis on being honest and telling it how it is. We shall see. . .
Save Yourself starts off with awesome guitary stuff (I will learn proper words for this soon). I tend to be a bit skeptical of female singers, because they usually end up being very shrill and annoying as opposed to actually singing, but Kayley's good, although her voice sounds more suited to pop music than rock and punk. I'm not complaining about her using it for punk though, it works perfectly fine here. I actually really like this song, it's very thrashy-about-y.
The next song on their site is Playing With Fire, which starts off with similar awesome guitar stuff, but sounds a bit more bad-ass. In this one, though, I feel like the singing's sort of been squashed into a box, like it's not being allowed the space needed for Kayley to sound really really awesome, which you can tell just by listening that she's capable of.
Anywhere But Home starts much calmer, with just gentle guitars. This one's probably my favourite one so far - all the different parts of the band seem to come together much better in this song. Yes, this is brilliant; I love how it suddenly explodes into guitars and drums and stuff, this is good, yes yes yes. Definitely listening to these guys again. I'm kind of annoyed that I've just missed their tour - apparently they were in soundcontrol back in March.
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