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Total Rest

by Onlooker

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Easy Breezy 02:25
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Value 03:46
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Hard Work 02:51
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Glory 02:31
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Eddy Lee 01:52
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Isolation 01:47
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Hot Romance 03:34

about

ONLOOKER are a 4-piece ‘post punk - garage rock' band from Teesside in the North East of England, UK. This, there debut album ‘Total Rest’ will be available on 12’ coloured vinyl, cassette and digital download and will be released via Sunderland based Serial Bowl Records on February 25th 2022.

Their previously released self-titled EP and the following split EP with ‘Ballpeen’ both received support from Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music, playing tracks ‘Radgey’,Rag Bone’ and ‘Harmonistic Logistics’ which were humbly described by Lamacq as ‘right up my street’ - ’bang on the money for me’

'A one-track taster of this Teesside unit’s LP that’s due later this year, “Easy Breezy” ratchets up the caustic alt rock sounds that saw previous releases – a four track EP and split with Ballpeen – being likened to Pixies, Wire and Fugazi. That should give you an idea of which park we are having a go on the swings and playing footy in. I reckon Onlooker are exploring that sort of sonic territory that, if this was a school disco, would be flirting with the ice cool post punk girls who are a bit weird and intimidating and too cool to dance while keeping an eye on the gang of lads and lasses who are all dancing and jumping about to the latest indie chart sensations and trying to sneak a can of Cameron’s Strongarm in without getting caught and done off of teacher'. Gadgie Fanzine

'What Onlooker do best is crunching post-hardcore with a twist of spoken-wordiness and Easy Breezy might just be the strongest track yet from the Teesside rockers, as it lurches from angular riffs to heavy speed-bass and a chorus for the masses’. NARC Magazine

‘As if the previous two weren’t energetic enough, we continue with even more fast paced, high energy rock outfit Onlooker’s ‘Get Out Alive’! It is more of that same but infectious and guitar-driven sound, with surprising hooks and passionate vocals’, Music For The Misfits

Hard edged, lightning paced, grimey garage rock. Take a dose of early Dr Feelgood, recent Eight Rounds Rapid, chuck in a decent slab of punk rock energy with slicing guitars and pounding drums and you’ll get the idea, and that energy is relentless. Post punk scratchy guitars and spoken/yelled vocals over a background noise that really ups the tempo. It’s infectious" Backstreet Mafia

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credits

released February 25, 2022

TRACKS WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY THE BAND, MIXED BY CHRIS MCMANUS (BLANK STUDIOS), MASTERED BY GRAHAM THOMPSON.
ARTWORK BY KIRSTY FLETCHER

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Serial Bowl Records England, UK

DIY PUNK/HARDCORE LABEL BASED IN SUNDERLAND, UK

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