The Parallels Amongst Ourselves

The most exciting thing about the sugar army story is that it starts right now. The members aren’t from previously glorious bands you know and love, nor have they been around long enough to pump out albums like a factory – throwing out idea after idea hoping that one of them will strike. If you’ve heard of sugar army, or better yet heard them, it is because you’re one of those people that keeps their ear to the ground, ever aware of the rumblings that signify something is coming. And sugar army have been laying their own track, piece by piece, to have finally arrived at the place we all are now… here. ‘Acute’, the band’s first single from their forthcoming album, is everything sugar army are about, rolled into four relentless minutes. With its straight-ahead dance-floor rhythm supporting decidedly less straight-ahead melodies, smashed out of the park by one of the most inimitable voices in contemporary australian rock; ‘acute’ is a twisting journey of brooding light and dark shades that never quite goes where you’re expecting it to. Produced by dave parkin (snowman, red jezebel), ‘acute’ follows sugar army’s mo of writing accessible, catchy songs that don’t follow a strict formula or template – but rather play out like musical novellas, giving the listener a chance to take a more adventurous path. Put the band on stage, and amplify this factor by 10.