King Alexander are a Cardiff based band and they make a curious racket. King Alexander's sound isn't that easy to define. The band mix up heavy bass, talked and then shouty vocals with indie guitar sounds. To date they have released one 6 track CDr EP 'Despot Chic' - which I think is self released and they also have a split 7" with a band called Male (more on Male another time). Their side of the single contains two songs 'His Nibs' and 'King Of Monsters'. Both of which are rather fine - 'His Nibs' is the more direct as a guitar riff emerges and then receeds - this reminds me of the otherside of C86, the less poppy side - as the shouty vocals comes in I am reminded of Bis doing 1986 indie. 'King Of Monsters' is a slower song - a thumping bass kicks in and male/female vocals come in, almost talking - reminding me of a less aggresive version of Prolapse.The 6 track EP is, if anything, more noise orientated. Crunching guitars and more manic vocals are the order of the day here. Opening song 'Acrobats' is a one minute whirlwind of jagged guitars. Elsewhere 'We Are A Good Egg' echoes the style found on the 7" single - with a bassy sound to the fore. I can't find fault with the band as this is the sort of sound I love. It helps blow the cobwebs away and that's no mistake. As it stands both of these releases are available to buy and the band have 4 songs to stream over on their My Space.
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