The Parallels Amongst Ourselves
The most exciting thing about the sugar army story is that it starts right now. The members arent 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 youve heard of sugar army, or better yet heard them, it is because youre 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 bands 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 youre expecting it to. Produced by dave parkin (snowman, red jezebel), acute follows sugar armys mo of writing accessible, catchy songs that dont 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.