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Topics music, rock, indie, band, EP

Brigade Frequently, bands get back together with dodgy motivations or to underwhelming results. Sometimes, though, they come back stronger, more compelling and completely reinvigorated. Following on from their 2011 break-up, UK quintet Brigade definitely fall into this latter category with their new EP, ‘This Is Not For You’. The five-tracker is the most acerbic, riff-ridden work of their career – boasting a darker edge than previous material and a nuanced stylistic shift while retaining everything that made them great in the first place. “I think we’ve taken what we did with Brigade and we’ve turned it up a notch,” says frontman Will Simpson. “We’ve gone bigger with the riffs, with the tuning we’ve stepped down the guitars further. There are more complex arrangements and we tried not to think about things we thought about in the past – like how songs work for radio. It’s just bigger, riskier, and more aggressive.”

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