Let's just run a quick list of the styles of music that new London band The Coptics are into: R&B, psych, garage, shoegaze, doo-wop, grunge, punk, Latin, early metal. Now with the possible exception of Latin and early metal (although we're partial to The MC5, Blue Cheer and so on) that's pretty much a checklist of the music we feature on the site (we'd add krautrock and electronica maybe), so this quartet should be right up our street. The trouble is that every band lists a wide variety of influences only to produce some form of guitar-based indie/punk at the end of it all. Can The Coptics break the mould? Being so new the songs are still in the demo stage and need a little sonic tidying up, but there is variety to be found here.
They make use of classic garage-punk riffs and a hint of surf on 'She Make Me Epileptic' and this is one song that may lose its appeal if heavier production was used. It's crude guitar that leads 'Babydoll (Obsession)' too, although the desperate, strained and distant vocals give it real raw emotion, it's loaded with potential this one, and you can feel those vintage influences, including doo-wop. 'I Love The Night' is unrefined psychobilly that could have come from a long lost Cramps demo session and 'Using' is pure post-punk. 'Evening Disorder' is another one worth mentioning and shows where that love of proto-metal fits in. While much of what The Coptics have recorded so far is primitive garage-punk there are glimpses of something more interesting waiting to burst through.
The Coptics' website
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