Teenage Nightwar - (2010) Alexander Graham Bell 7''

“Alexander Graham Bell” is frantic and tense from the get-go, with an emergency-warning bassline ushering in a quick and powerful post-punk ride, somewhere between Wire’s early demos and the Popular Shapes full-length. More bands should opt for this sort of locomotive drumming, but then again, you’ve got to have some level of chops to pull it off, which Teenage Nightwar certainly do. “Letdown” is less frantic, maybe think Wire circa Chairs Missing, which anyone with ears will enjoy. Both songs are over in a flash, leaving me with a taste for more. Very nice indeed.