The Sherlocks - Live For The Moment

Since drip-feeding hit singles since 2014, The Sherlocks finally release their hotly-anticipated debut album Live For The Moment three years on. You warmly welcome the opening tracks of the album, Will You Be There?, Live For The Moment and then eventually Chasing Shadows, which harks back to similar indie rock bands from days-gone-past such as The Smiths and The Stone Roses in its introduction. But it’s not until we get to track five, Blue that we finally break away from the back catalogue of tracks The Sherlocks have already established. However, I stumbled across the infamous NME article on The Sherlocks that started up this eye-rolling debate that rock music is dead. You can’t knock the confidence of lead singer Kiaran Crook and how positive he feels about the album they’ve made, but proclaiming yourself as “the pioneers of guitar music” is mind blowing. After comparing themselves to heavyweights such as The Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon, it becomes clear how derivative their sound is of everything we’ve heard before. I can’t help but think the whole thing is incredible ironic. Maybe if The Sherlocks just paid attention to other bands, they’d realise that “guitar music” is doing perfectly fine.