Averkiou might be from Gainesville, Florida, yet you’d be hard-pressed to lump them in with the majority of bands from the area. Instead of playing gritty punk-rock and growing a beard, these guys went shoegaze on our asses. Okay, so they stay on the more rocking side of the genre but still… it’s shoegaze. A genre I associate more with the dreary weather in the UK than the near-tropical climate of Florida.
Fuck it though… they’re pretty good at what they do. That fuzzy lead guitar in the title track is pretty kickass while the swirling guitars in “No One’s Holding A Gun To Your Head”mix nicely with the fragile male/female vocals. That’s it for the 7”… download the thing and you get an acoustic extra called “Jersey”. It’s good… different but good. It makes them sound less depressed ?
Score: 7 out of 10
http://www.soundstudyrecordings.com
http://www.averkiou.net
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