Ten Kens - Ten Kens

FatCat

Toronto’s Ten Kens’ eponymous debut hops out of the cannon tremulously, with frontman Dan Workman’s wailing on opener ‘Bearfight’; a track that could be classed as anthemic if it wasn’t so piercing. A shared love of early Nineties alt. rock outfits may have united them, but Ten Kens have also marked out their allegiance to contemporary art-rock mobs. Elsewhere, surf rock (‘The Alternate Biker’ could have been a Pixies song), sits side by side with more clinical vehemence on ‘The Whore Of Revolution’. Using their moniker as a way of distancing themselves from an identity may backfire though, as on the basis of this record, a lot more people are going to know about Ten Kens. Ciarán Ryan

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DOWNLOAD: ‘BEARFIGHT’, ‘THE WHORE OF REVOLUTION’.
FOR FANS OF: LIARS, PIXIES, WOLF PARADE, SONIC YOUTH.

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