Music
Slate
Post-punk revival revival revival band to be reckoned with
On the desk lie Arthur Rimbaud and Dylan Thomas, well-read and worn, outside it's pouring again. Slate makes it seem as if there was no other choice: the four twenty-somethings were destined, after their student days in drizzly Cardiff, to start a heavily clouded post-punk band. In the drawling, Grian-esque cadence of singer Jack Shepherd, a grim yet romantic modernism echoes, and once the band unleashes its sound, it is hard to see them anywhere other than in the same semi-darkness as Interpol and Fontaines D.C.
