1. Wanna Be That Way
2. Bring It To Me
3. The Other (CD2 b-side)
4. Start Up (7" b-side)
The first single from ikara colt's (Alex Newport produced ) second album is 'wanna be that way' and it will be released on February the 16th 2004.
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REVIEWS 1:
2-4-7
You'll already know if you read our review of their recent ICA gig on their comeback taster tour at the end of last year, but Ikara Colt did not self destruct after all the 'Chat & Business' business, amazingly, in fact we think they went away and got better. They're going to keep us waiting until May for the full second album (recorded promisingly with producer Alex Newport - At The Drive In/Mars Volta), but in the meantime they have a single out on 16 February through Fantastic Plastic going by the name of 'Wanna Be That Way'. From the new stuff we heard at their December gig this is merely the tip of the iceberg, but it is as powerful as anything they've done yet with exactly the type of punishing pace you got used to last time around. And it's very shouty. But you knew that already too. The single is backed across the formats with a bundle of new tunes, including 'Leave This Country' and 'Start Up'.
artrocker
Waiting for the next record by a band you're keeping an eye on keeps the musical saliva glands flowing.
Ikara Colt is back, but if the new single is any indication, they've gotten surlier. And we're all better off for it.
The first single on its way in February, Wanna Be That Way, shows a band more in command.
The same elements are there, but somehow it seems darker and more focused. When Ikara Colt release a single, they aren't kidding. At least at this early date we're talking one song. Can't remember ever hearing a cd with one song. Something of a 45 about it. Here and gone. The single hit me harder after it ended - the silence echoed in my head and my flat. With that image in mind, fast forward a few days later. Dom, Ikara's
drummer, comes on by to Ben's to hang out, and after making a day of it, turns out he has the new video of the single.
incredible! Seriously. The song kicks, and then the video! Jeez.
They had some Japanese animator who created a whole comic book like effect that's really amazing. It's black and white with panels that move with the music. It's not just static, with streaks of light coming off of the guitar and drums as the band plays. Comic book clouds of explosions appear as cymbals crash. The panels move by quickly, the tempo of the song rushing by. More than just a video of a song, the video actually makes the song BETTER. It's that good. Dom says it's currently getting play on MTV2, in C rotation, whatever that
is. If you want to see music videos then I guess that's where you gotta go these days, but that will change.
At the moment, I'm waiting on some show called Eye Candy, which is supposed to show the video.
The interviews are picking up. The meetings with the people that help make those things happen.
Guess the rest have to wait until mid-February to get the single, but in the mean time, take it easy, knowing that the hunger pang and the saliva glands will keep you in suspense just long enough for the pay-off to keep it from hurting too much. (mellish)
beat surrender
First album 'Chat And Business' laid the foundations for this rock acts reputation for not hanging about with overdrawn epics and needless guitar solos, choosing instead pounding drums and heavy guitar.
As per the first album this single released as a taster follows along the same lines, pure rock energy with a real punk feel to it, it's 100% adrenalin and it's rather wonderful.
brain love
Whassat? Ikara Colt, you say? I remember these whipper-snappers from back in the day. Where have they been? God knows. But the Big News of 2002 are back, and they couldst still be ye big news in 2004 if their luck holds. They still rock in their rough, jagged, shouty style. Thou shalt go and see them live for the real deal. And in the meantime, this'll do fine.
REVIEWS 2:
cd times
Ikara Colt had an interesting career so far. A debut album, rave reviews from the NME, losing a bass player, gaining a bass player and playing sell-out gig at the ICA have all been tests they've passed with flying colours. They are currently locked in a studio with At The Drive-In/Mars Volta producer Alex Newport from which this preview copy of new single, Wanna Be That Way has escaped. It'll be released on February 16th, and will be available in a variety of formats, from scratchy old vinyl to posh CD with a video track.
This is tasty punk rock with attitude, a meaty descending riff slightly reminiscent of early Stooges stuff, but with a post-modern, hyper twist. The influence of Alex Newport is clear, and the whole thing is a breathless three-minutes worth of contemporary post-punk that's instantly catchy and demands a repeat play or three. It's a promising song, indeed, and from opening, throbbing bass-line to closing chaotic thrashing about, it's never less than a quite a wonderful thing. The album is released May 2004 and, if all the songs are as good as this, it'll be great. (Karl Wareham)
clear and refreshing
Ikara Colt's time may have come. Too brutal, arty and just too plain British to get caught up in the first wave of nu-garage or whatever it's called now, their first, terrific album "Chat And Business" was only a minor hit on the British indie scene. However, with the media now all a-frenzy for all things shouty and post-punk, Ikara Colt's monochrome, Fall-accented, one-chord, stop-start punk noise should find itself the subject of rather more flattering attention this time around.
"Wanna Be That Way" is as fierce and direct a statement of intent as they come, all thundering drums and fuzzy jackhammer guitars, it's a streamlined, sharp-suited monster that screams down the motorway leaving lumbering dinosaurs like The Datsuns coughing and spluttering on its dust. B-side "Leave This Country" runs along similar lines but with a more straight-edged rock slant. New album "Modern Apprentice" comes out this June.
clubagarphobic
There are times that I’ve lost faith in the music scene over the past few years, tiring of hearing the same thing, year after year, only for it to be rehashed five years later and sold as something new. Then I discover Ikara Colt, and somehow, it all seems better again. ‘Wanna be that way’ is the first single to be taken from forthcoming second album ‘Modern Apprentice’, and is a rip roaring return to form. At just over three minutes in length, it satisfies immensely, complete with vocals soaked in attitude, a simple but infectious riff, thumping beats and a shouty chorus, which is even more seductive due to the female backing vocals. Of course, they’re never going to escape the Fall comparisons if they continue to release songs such as this, but I’d never call being called ‘the more accessible Fall’ an insult in any way. The indie world has a place for Ikara Colt; very definitely, let’s just hope they earn it with their next album…
do something pretty
After an 18 month hiatus that has seen them recruit a new bass player, Ikara Colt return pretty much where they last left off with this three-minute adrenalin fuelled stomper, much to the delight of their ever-burgeoning army of fans.
Paul Resende’s now familiar “if Mark E Smith were a Tractor Boy” drawl punctuates the discordant guitars in a way that could terrorise even the most subversive guerrilla fighters, coarsely aided and abetted by Claire Ingham’s decisive yelp in the most lyrically simplistic chorus.
Groundbreaking? No.
Genius? Maybe.
A valuable addition to your CD collection? Most definitely. (Dom Gourlay)
REVIEWS 3:
drowned in sound
The Ikaras try and continue their Colt status. See what we did there? 'Colt' status. You see! With the... oh never mind.
Last time we saw the Colt they promised their doting fans, unkempt of hair and skinny of tie, that they would return with a different but altogether better set of tunes. Not that there was anything wrong with what they already had below their belt avec premier maxi 'Chat & Business' and its accompanying set of EPs, but they were strong believers that if they, or for that matter any band, did not progress then their existence in the biz we call 'show' would be pointless.
A big issue for you to discuss in your own time - particularly if your an Oasis fan - but as for their first 'new' offering, 'Wanna Be That Way', the sentiment is there. What makes it less daunting, though, is that it sounds like Ikara Colt - obvious statement you may think, but it's hardly a 'Kid A'-style swerve away from past glories in the name of experimentation. Not that either would automatically make the song bad, but they've moved on as well as stayed the way we already know we love them. Welcome back frantic chord-as-riff thrill, have you been working out? Hey there, machine-gun drumming, are those new shoes? What's up, shout-a-long fist-in-the-air chorus, have you seen The Fall lately?
Time to start pogoing where you left off - there's now more muscle on the Ikara arm, although they won't be filling stadiums any time soon. But really, would you want them to? (Thomas Blatchford)
duckie music
"Wanna Be That Way" sees the anticipated return of London's fast and frantic rockers, Ikara Colt. Armed with a new bassist they are eager to prove they mean business.
Opening with a piercing wall of feedback it bursts into a frenzy of murderous bass lines and pounding guitars. All this, contorted with Paul Resende's distinctive voice, leads to an explosive climax that will leave you salivating for more. Though not too dissimilar to anything from 2002's "Chat and Business", fans will not be disappointed. They're ready for the big time. Genius. (LB)
the fly
They've never been one to bit their tongue but someone has definitely pissed of Ikara Colt. They ain't happy. Just to prove it, they go about wrecking guitars, drums larynxes and eardrums in one mega-pissed off sprawl. Good news all round then. (ND)
geek scene
I first heard IKARA COLT a couple of years back, i saw them when they supported IDLEWILD and heard their debut 'chat and business' so was pretty stoked when Paul gave me this to review. From the first listen you can instantly see the influence producer Alex Newport( produced such artists as AT THE DRIVE-IN, MARS VOLTA and LOCUST) has had on their sound. It's quite a fast and furious record akin to the aforementioned bands, SEAFOOD and the like. I was a bit disappointed that the promo copy only gives us one of the songs on the single and therefore only one aspect of their more mature sound but the track they do give is enough to get me interested again. It's kinda like what ASH were trying to achieve when they brought out 'nu-clear sounds' but so much better. I can't wait to see what else they have recorded, hopefully they've made more of the female vocalist as she makes it all sound that little bit better (not being sexist). Anyway as a whole 'wanna be that way' is a good one for all the rock kids out their that grew up listening to IDLEWILD circa 'captain' and other such bands and are that little bit older and wiser. The singles out on Feb 16th, and the album is due out in May. Nice... (CR)
REVIEWS 4:
indigo flow
I saw Ikara Colt live about two years ago and wasn't incredibly impressed. The thing is though, they're one of those band's I've always wanted to like. This perhaps makes it worse because when I hear them, rather than being put off or turned on instantly, I sit and will them to entertain me. There are certainly parts of Wanna Be That Way that appeal to me but there are other parts that leave me utterly emotionless, which is a strange way to be thrown around over three minutes. (AM)
I really love music
the return of the 'scene with no names' prime mover release their first single 'wanna be that way' from the forthcoming album. after a lengthy silence the band are back, and this time they are pulling no punches. this opening shot is a 3 minute urgent blast of fall type rants set against uptempo sonic youth duelling discordant guitar layers. superb.
joyzine
The first release from the new look Ikara Colt, following the replacement of original bassist Jon Ball with Tracy Bellaries, and it sees them picking up pretty much where they left off - a 100mph car crash of rumbling bass, hammering drums and guitars that teeter on the brink of chaos, but crucially hold it together just enough so that the whole thing doesn't descend into a messy tangle of noise. Add to that a gloriously infectious shoutalong chorus, and the extra snarl injected into Paul's vocals, and any worries you may have had will be incinerated by three minutes of apocalyptic art punk. (Paul Madden)
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Second-rate Strokes clones? Don’t you believe it; the monkey that wrote that particular piece of cloth-eared bollocks was obviously listening from the bar. It’s been a long time since ‘Chat And Business’, one whole year in fact, and in that time they’ve lost a bassist (Jon Ball), gained a new one (Tracy Bellaries), taken up residence in the studio with Locust/Mars Volta producer Alex Newport and swapped the old teeth and nails approach for fangs and claws. Ikara Colt aren’t second-rate anything, they’re a first rate something, and if you’re gonna push me I can only suggest that Mark E. Smith isn’t gonna be best pleased. It’s not that they’ve nicked his old ideas, more that they’ve jumped ahead to where The Fall would be in two years time. Mark E. hates plagiarism, and Ikara Colt have just made him change his plans. Ha! (Gillian Nash)
losing today
My mam always told me to stay well clear of sharp objects, accidents are better avoided than encouraged. Ikara Colt are the sharpest objects in the knife box, unrelenting, daunting, ferocious and dangerous. 'Wanna be that way' is lifted from the bands forthcoming sophomore full length as yet untitled and features new bassist Tracy Bellaries. A frenzied punked up assault of some measure brimming with jagged riffs and a violently insistent bass groove that at times veers close to having the effect of the Fall jamming with a particular edgy Sonic Youth with Fugazi in the background trashing the mix. Akin to having your eyes gouged out and salt rubbed in the wounds, just watch this cutie play pow wow with your Hi-Fi and God help your speakers. A winner, obviously. (mark)
manchester online
IF imitation is the ultimate form of flattery, then Iggy Pop should feel pretty pumped full of pride after hearing Ikara Colt's Wanna Be That Way. It contains just a few similarities to The Stooges' singers down and dirty anthem, Be Your Dog, with just enough of a modern twist to make it fresh enjoyable and full of energy. They manage to shout camp punk vocals forcefully while remaining tuneful, while playing urgent yet rhythmic bursts of blasting guitar. Come on Ikara Colt, it's clear that you just wanna be your God. (Simon Donohue)
REVIEW 5:
music week
This single serves as a taster for ikara colt's forthcoming second album, which is slated for a May release date, and also showcases the band's new two-girl/ two-boy line-up. Musically, the band have stuck to their guns, with shouty vocals and disorientated guitars echoing a Sonic Youth framework.
nme
Also inside the 'pleasantly uncomplicated' file we find ikara colt, current holders of the Greatest Sexy Ladies/ Ugly Blokes In-Band Discrepancy title in all pop music. In 'wanna be that way' (Fantastic Plastic) they get their heads down, chug very fast and finish very quickly, and are unlikely to ever be played to maintain a mood of refined elegance at a diplomatic ball. And that's a compliment. (Pete Cashmore)
no ripcord
For some reason, it feels like forever since we last heard from Ikara Colt. It's been too long. Wanna Be That Way shows that the line-up change had no effect on their ability to thrash around violently. This is likely their hardest song to date. Kinda reminiscent of ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead when the drummer's playing guitar and singing. It's that heavy. Art-school punk, whatever! This is foaming at the mouth, vicious and seething punk rock that lives on raw power.
playlouder
Yes, as you may well have surmised by now, Ikara Colt are SINGLE OF THE WEEK. Predictable? Maybe, but they're so far ahead of anything else this week that there was really never any doubt. With a new bassist and a new album on the way in May, 'Wanna Be That Way' is the perfect reminder that these guys are probably the best young band in Britain today. It's the best of The Fall and Sonic Youth and At The Drive-In all rolled into one fuzzy, cuddly ball of fun, spitting guitars and heart-hammering bass-runs and shouty mad vocals. "HEY, hey, hey! You Wanna Be That Way!" they yell, and there's no way you're going to say no to them. Available in numerous formats - two CDs and a 7" - we've only got the title-track to listen to, but I'm betting the rest are just as supersonic so buy all formats
rock feedback
Prime movers within 2002’s short-lived ‘Scene With No Name’ (a particularly misguided invention of one rockfeedback’s more down-market rivals), London noisemakers Ikara Colt have returned. That they do so on the back of a blitzing new single charged with so utterly squalid an impact you can almost taste the sweat dripping off the low-slung bass is cause for at least minor celebration. Relentless. (Matt Tomiak)
rock sound
Back at long last, the brittle post-punkisms through which Ikara Colt once communicated seem to have given way to a harder, heavier and sweatier sound. As ever, frontman Paul Resende sneers like a young Mark E. Smith as his newly-fortified band raucously scorch the earth around him. Top drawer material.
REVIEWS 6:
soundsxp
Thank Christ; Ikara Colt are back, with an elephant-footed hobnail-booted kick up the dysentery-afflicted arse of dreary indie, NME darlings and Strokes copyists. Suddenly the world is a little better and my ears are a little deafer. The new look Colt sees the addition of the almost compulsory female bassist (Tracy Bellaries), and with new album ‘Modern Apprentice’ due in May, the future is looking rosier than eating Cadbury’s Roses in a rose garden.
‘Wanna Be That Way’ is breathtaking ferocious art-punk, a barely constrained chaos of rumbling basslines, frenetic guitar, 100mph drums and shouty chorus, and will ignite your local record shop on Feb 16. Check out the vid at www.ikaracolt.com and check out the band at the single’s launch party at The Fortress, London E1 on the 17th (still a few tix up for grabs via their site). (graham s)
stereo effect
A newly refined and gender balanced (new girl on bass) Ikara Colt make a welcome and sneering return into the fray. “Wanna Be That Way” (Fantastic Plastic) is a lean and taut beast of a tune, more compact and realised than anything they’ve done before, Paul ranting over a juddering riff, taking the lead from Bloc Party the ‘Colt also make liberal use of Hey ! Hey !. Obviously excellent then. (nick farrow)
this is fake diy
Since their debut album ‘Chat & Business’, Ikara Colt have been hidden away from the music press. The recent news of bassist Jon Ball leaving didn’t fill fans with much hope for their next album ‘Modern Apprentice’ (due out March 10th). Fortunately all rumours have been irradiated with the first single from the album. The song starts off with hypnotic feedback, which is then accompanied by a simple bass riff which then erupts into almost metal riffage, including one of the catchiest tunes in the last few months. This is certainly livelier than previous material. The new style suits frontman Paul Resende perfectly with his forced vocal style. Following a simple structure of non-stop noise and thumping chorus, the song is a modern re-working of the late 70’s punk sound. Loud, brash and bold, this song paves the way for what’s looking to be a gem in the traditional punk crown. The video’s not too shabby either. (David Quinn)
trakmarx
Line-up changes have blighted Ikara Colt since 2002’s debut LP, Chat & Business, but they don’t seem to have lost any steam. Wanna Be That Way is a natural progression from where they left off - taught, sinewy & low down dirty. This is powerful stuff - structured, opinionated noise.
Retro & futuristic - all at the same time. Threatening but vaguely reassuring. Spikey - but not averse to a quick cuddle behind the bike sheds. Ikara Colt are one of the groups that actually matter in the UK right now - & that’s more than enough reason to rush out & purchase this 45 on Feb 16th.
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