Guest Post: Alvarez Kings

This is a guest post from a fellow student and good friend of mine Kevin Jones. Kevin is currently studying journalism at the University of Lincoln.

Alvarez Kings are an upcoming unsigned band from Sheffield who I highly recommend, see the links below for more details.

The indie-band scene of late seems to be what can only be described as a mass musical game of Snap: pairing similar sounding bands off on each other, culminating to one heap of same old-same old. The continuing influx of band-upon-band is forming a copy-cat-culture, which to get to the point, is not what Alvarez Kings should be categorised into. See Alvarez Kings more as the Joker of the pack – taken out from the mass-mob of similar suits, and placed on a pile of their own. With a host of new songs to boot, Alvarez’s indie-disco flood of refreshing beats are stepping stones of brilliance, floating on a pool of bland-bands around them.

Their recent transformation to a four-piece – Simon Thompson now frontman – has tightened up on what was already a majestic outfit. Simon’s vocals, full of character, portray a voice of truth, meaning and grit; they now have an aura of finished-article about them. With a hot buzz around London at the minute – having played Club NME at Koko to a packed crowd on two occasions earlier in the year – it’s only a matter of time before these underachievers receive the accreditation they are so long overdue.

Kevin Jones