Premiere: Legion – Sir-Vere

Legion sees Sir-Vere continue their musical crusade to bring rock and a dance place closer together. Musically, they make dance music out of musical elements that seem to have the weight and intensity more associated with the rock world, or perhaps they make rock music out of digital constructs rather than adhering to the more analogue traditions of the past.

However they get there, the result is fantastic, and Legion is both the sound of the here and now and sits at the end of an experiment that has been going on since those early post-punk pioneers turned their backs on guitar music and reinvented themselves as Blitz Kids and New Romantics and Techno-Goths and Electro-dance divas.

Legion is a salvo of bruising depth-charge bass lines and bombardments of drums, hypnotic riffs and nice guy/scary guy vocals, cold metallic textures and claustrophobic musical tones, all of which seem to build in intensity as the track cocoons itself in additional musical layers and heads to the finish line.

“We stick to our guns,” says singer Craig Hammond, “you could almost call it stubbornness.” Well, it looks like stubbornness pays off. Considering this week, I have written about KMFDM (a band certainly in the same musical ballpark) being 23 albums in and 40 years in the game; it isn’t hard to see Sir-Vere
going the distance as well.

Stream their latest album, Lovescope, on all platforms HERE