Vanilla Giver - Light Up Your Life (Guest Review By Darren Bourne)

    

  Another guest review today as Darren Bourne of Tadpole Records draws our attention to one of the many great bands from his home city... 

  The 2020 lockdown has stopped a lot of things, but you can't keep the good punks down, and so we have a new Demo from Vanilla Giver (https://www.facebook.com/vanillagiver/), who are a queer punk rock band currently living in Brighton.

  What you get are 5 tracks of Punk / Grunge that should appeal to fans of raw garage punk, L7, punk rock, 90's grunge or the Lunachicks. It's raw, short & loud - as all good punk should be.

  My favourite track is "Light up your Life" with it's catchy chorus, but you can check it all out at https://vanillagiver.bandcamp.com/album/ffs & rock out to tracks like "Traffic Warden Love Song" or "Single Mumz".

  Final song "The Best" has a more shouty chorus and would fit on a 90's Riot Grrrl compilation with it's screaming backing vocals & it's a solid ending to a solid demo.

  Hopefully I'll get to watch them rock out live in 2021, I have a feeling it'll be a lot of fun & after the shit show that is 2020, we could all do with a bit of fun.  

This is Light Up Your Life...