Crows - “Room 156”

SXSW 2022 - OEB Score: 7; Popularity Index: 4

Pairs Well With…Shame, The Murder Capital, Idles

The couple of singles released so far from Crows’ sophomore record Beware Believers preview the UK post-punk band continuing their dense, psychedelic songwriting with a sound built on driving intensity. “Slowly Separate” hides the band’s subtly power-pop songwriting under thick feedback riffs while “Room 156” uses grimy, stoner rock and new-wave vocals in a loosening/tightening way, showing off the band’s chaotic control. These powerful modes that can only get deeper upon the release of Beware Believers due on April 1st as Crows’ explorative punk continues to envelop and impress. (Kevin McStravick)

2020 Review: Rampant reverb and feedback form the canvas for Crows music, heavy post-punk and alt rock that vibrates with intensity, always just on the edge of incessant. Their debut full-length is Silver Tongues, a powerful collection of looming epics and dark excursions, a record informed by trippy psych rock jams, but tightened in a unique and hypnotic way. The UK quartet sound wickedly together and purposeful on Silver Tongues, notably mature for a debut though they’ve been gigging together since forming in 2013.