Unsigned Band Spotlight: Stop Eject

Sometimes you come across a band that you simply can’t work out whether you like what they’re doing or not, but you’ve got a gut feeling they must be on to something. I was so undecided infact, that I almost didn’t write up anything when Stop Eject emailed to let us hear their latest single ‘The Retirement of Intelsat 3R’.. till I realised that they’d probably be quite pleased with that reaction.

In their own words:

"We would rather not try and describe the noise we make - there are better qualified people for that, and we don’t know what we are doing most of the time anyway."

After listening to the tracks on their website, that’s probably pretty accurate. As one user commented on SoundCloud - the guitar seems like it’s threatening to fall off the rails at some parts.. a bit like the hectic twiddlings of MichaelGuitar from Artrocker favourites We Are The Physics

I probably did them a dis-service by listening first to what has since become apparent is a b-side - ‘In Europe, An Atlas’. Something about it didn’t quite sit right, and not in a good way. The vocals stick out a bit too much and seem a bit too forced, or.. something. It just made me squirm about my seat in an awkward fashion, feeling ‘this should be good, but it just.. isn’t.’

The actual full-on, proper real genuine a-sides are a different story altogether.

With the levels on Intelsat 3R and others mixed far better than on the aforementioned, Robert Enola’s (what a name!) fits into the demented guitars like a glove. If Ian Curtis was starting a band today, it’d probably sound a lot like this. It’s impossible to listen to the upcoming single ‘I Am A Social Network’ without Joy Division coming to mind. Not that that’s a bad thing.

This is the sort of music I like.

You can have a listen to some tracks, including ‘I Am a Social Network’ on their site.