Interview: "Volume is pretty key to our sound" Laughter turn their amps and melodies up to 11.
The outsiders are here to have their say. Jim Auton talks with London genre-hopping newcomers Laughter and finds out more about the driving force behind their music. ------------------------------------------- There’s not enough heavy music being talked about. Outside of your particular scenes where Hardcore is flourishing, or your Metal magazines are outstripping NME , the art of making ears bleed and faces melt is being underplayed for Dream Pop and Post Punk. Not there’s anything wrong with either of those genres when done well, and there are plenty of excellent exponents of them, but a wall of distorted, overdriven and brain melting guitar is being overlooked. Hold my beer, say Laughter . This five piece from London are crushing and deafening with the kind of rock that is scant appreciated by the press. They merge and mould perfect pop melodies and guitars that could reduce buildings to rubble (our grassroots venues are made of sturdier stuff, it’s just the f...
