Avalanche Party 24 Carat Diamond Trephine Album Review

Avalanche Party 24 Carat Diamond Trephine Album Review

Avalanche Party are your new favourite feral garage-punk band.

Hailing from North Yorkshire Moors, the quintet release their highly anticipated debut album Friday via So Knee Records. Following their promising reputation for their intense and intimate performances, the band’s debut drops tomorrow.

24 Carat Diamond Trephine  is a tester of sanity, both the band’s and the listeners. It is an album to prowl on, to prey on and to lose your mind to. There are recognisable inspirations behind this album- some more obvious than others. Nods towards The Wytches and The Cramps are present yet the album harbours its own originality that has undoubtedly captured the raw, undomesticated passion of Avalanche Party’s live shows.

The album is an eleven-track joyride that is boiling over- capturing and regurgitating the band’s raw energy and presenting it to you in LP form. The album opens with a murder-ballad style track ‘El Dorado’. With its melancholic tendencies, it leads us into the bluesy second track that reflects The Horror’s earlier album, Strange House. 

The wild record is a possessive trip that spits as you as it scuttles past. It’s disgusting but in all the right ways and mirrors a similar disturbance to contemporaries such as Fat White Family and Viagra Boys. Not many bands can capture their live excitement in an album- especially in a debut- however, Avalanche Party have perfectly crafted their unique sound at an early stage and have created something outstanding.

Let the Avalanche Party magic bring you along on its hectic ride.