AU Review Loosely Based On Fiction – 8 out of 10!
Check out the current issue (51) of AU for a great review of the album, written by Editor and all round gentleman Francis Jones. Awarding it 8 out of 10 he writes:
“These are songs to make your inner indie boy rejoice. The debut album from Belfast’s Escape Act, Loosely Based On Fiction drips indie melodies like tears from the sainted eyes of Morrissey. It’s a beautiful, heart-bursting experience. Hearing ‘Kings Have Fallen’ is like being impaled on a shaft of sunlight, the guitar and voice racing hand-in-hand like young lovers.
Meanwhile, former single, ‘God Says’ throws a Pixies freakout before sliding into a chorus as golden sweet as a vat of honey. What’s particularly encouraging here is that these songs are as lyrically imaginative as they are tuneful; phrases are bent winningly out of shape and the vocabulary is extended into the poetic. Indeed, the later ‘Sullied Behave For The Moon’ – all coiled power and evocative atmospherics – and the obscenely catchy final one-two of ‘Corpses Candle’ and ‘Broken Chin’ suggest that this is a band deserving of a place amongst the highest echelons of Northern Irish alt. rock.”
