When listening to Leave Me Alone, the debut single from Adelaide 3 piece Horror My Friend, you could be forgiven for thinking you had gone back in a time machine to the early and mid 2000s. This is not a bad thing. The garage revival we saw in music from the era produced some of the greatest bands of the last decade such as The Vines, The Strokes, and The White Stripes.
There is something highly infectious about Leave Me Alone that makes you want to dance like no-one is watching. It feels right at home in a playlist next to The Rakes, Flamingo Crash, and some of Children Collide’s earlier songs. And whilst there are moments when you swear you’ve heard this song before, there’s enough here that’s fresh to keep you listening. Sure this is post-punk garage rock, sure it has the famous indie dance drum beat made famous by Bloc Party, and sure we’ve heard it all before. But we weren’t sick of it back then and we’re not sick of it now.
Look out for Horror My Friend at an indie disco near you.
