Surrey-born Drones were formed in early 2010 due to an aspiration to create likeable music and significant lyrics concerning social and political issues that are often overlooked in modern music. With inspiration from the likes of NOFX, The Clash, Rancid and Anti-Flag, Drones managed to personally organise a video-shoot for single ‘Shells Fall, Pins Pulled’ with vocalist Daly George’s long-term friend Theo Marlow. This was greeted with fan-driven chaos over the internet and over 1,000 views on YouTube within one week.
In June 2011, the trio became the first punk band to play the student music festival ‘Beach Break Live’ Drones wrote ‘Mutiny’ with an experimental drive in mind including marching snares and megaphone effects, which do not reflect the album’s overall budget of £60. Towards the end of recording in August this year, Drones were approached by Lock Jaw Records and happily accepted, helping them to organise a UK tour this month.
The artwork of ‘Mutiny’ was created by Mitchell Thomas and depicts a character protesting against the government. The album commences with ‘Jack Won’t’, a heavy yet melodic drum and bass rock offering, in which vocals are deemed somewhat unimportant. The instrumentation in particular, is very well produced, especially for such a young band. Drones’ Rise Against style, however, does not bode well in title track ‘Mutiny’ or ‘Thursday’s A Full Moon’, as they are rather rapid, making the lyrics difficult to understand for such an issue based band.
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| Mitchell Thomas' Artwork for 'Mutiny' |
As the album continues, it does so in much of the same format; with good instrumentation and overall
production but sweeping vocals and emotion. ‘The Jester’ is made up of faint drumming, weak vocals and rhythmic guitar, which may be decent stand-alone elements, but do not work when blended together. ‘Spite’ and ‘Assassins of Youth’ start in much the same speedy way, but seem to speed into nothing but another weak couple of tracks.
The band’s single that was released earlier this year, ‘Shells Fall, Pins Pulled’ is as bad and ineffective as its title, with unrythmic vocals that do not mix together whatsoever. It is definitely not the successful single bands and artists dream of. From start to finish, each track builds into nothing significant and appear to end so abruptly that it leaves the listener in a daze or resentment for the music, and ‘The Static Truth’ is no different.
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| Drones |
‘Raise The Arms’ and ‘Watch It Burn’ partner up perfectly with the skip button, despite their more gentle tone, and final track ‘Call Your Own’ is no variation on the rest of ‘Mutiny’. Overall, the instrumentation works well for minor moment, until it is utterly tarnished by useless shouted vocals and random thrashes of guitar and drumming.
2/5
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