Entertainment Architects – Music PR Ireland

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The Minutes / Marcata !!!

We’ve been counting down the minutes to The Minutes’ debut album – see what we did there? – and as Jamie Skey reports, the Irish rockers have delivered the craic!

The Minutes / Marcata

(Model Citizen)
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Greasy Irish geezers The Minutes don’t hang about. They canned ‘Marcata’ (named after the upstate New York recording studio) in a five-day-flat blow out. The most riveting cut on here, ‘Secret History,’ is also the briefest, clocking in at a laconic one minute and forty five seconds. Indeed, this is a drunken joyride of a record. A screeching getaway car gunned by the ghost of Thin Lizzy, with head-spinning glimpses of The Black Keys looming large in the rearview.

Speaking of the Ohio blues-rock ‘Brothers’, The Minutes aren’t shy to echo a few of their calling cards. In fact, their first single is pretty unambiguously called ‘Black Keys’, which is either a damn cheeky marketing ploy with search engine optimisation graffitied all over it, or an act of fan-boy innocence. Whatever the truth, the tune is stompingly good fun, souped up with gas-guzzling tempos, Chevrolet-revved guitars and filthy greasy brass.

‘Marcata’ is a faultless, sturdy hunk of rock ‘n’ roll, a raucous, racy and reliable record fuelled by an outfit who’ll no doubt be churning up dust at next summer’s festivals.