Mentioned in Dispatches: Guillotine – Drella

Guitar riffs have one job to do. Their sole function in life is to draw the listener in, hook them, lay ear-worm eggs in their brains, and make them want to keep listening and find out more. On the evidence of Guillotine alone, it is something that is obvious to Bradford’s Drella.

They blend a spiralling, instantaneous guitar hook with walls of rhythmic drive, underpinned by driving beats and bass, into an anthemic slice of rock. Add a layer of vocals that are both eminently sing-along-able (that’s a word, right) and fist-in-the-air incendiary, and you have one helluva tune.