Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

We have become desensitised to the idea of someone being delicate, lauding their best life when they open up, but ignoring the signs of what causes them to withdraw. We have called such people by names verging on the cruel and ignorant, decrying the thoughtful and sensitive with disdain, abusing them with tactless remarks and even going as far as to ridicule those to who are fragile in the face of beauty and distressing times.

It’s Karma It’s Cool’s latest single, Crashability is a song that utilises the declared refrain with such fist shaking credibility that to feel its emotions is understand that we are living in desperate times that have undermined our relationship with each other and the society we have fought to uphold.

“Waiting for something to happen” is arguably the slogan of our times, we are anticipating a moment so monumental that the course of our future’s is altered, that this nightmare we are living in will soon be extinguished; and yet the truth is far from clear, the refrain ever sang is the reminder that the cheerleaders who lead are imploring on us all to finally make the stand, to know the enemy who has led us to this parade of damnation.

The sense of advocating beat is alluring, the way the band continue to weave intricacy and high velocity along with a stirring vocal is outrageously cool, and as the Lincolnshire group focus on creation they also wittingly, fascinatingly produce a song that is daring the fates in the same way someone might bode another with the motion of living in interesting times.

Our ability to withstand damage, to rise above the clouded, choking soot of indifference relies on passion and knowledge, of being on the side of those that lift us; and Its Karma Its Cool are undoubted warriors of that fierce power pop expression.

Ian D. Hall