PØRTERS Channel the Haunt of Power, Harmony and Rawness in ‘Recover’ – Alt-Rock’s New North East Vanguard

With the first scuzzy thrums of PØRTERS’ Recover, Newcastle’s fiercest five-piece lurch right out of the North Sea fog and into your speakers, jaws set, hackles up, ready to gnash at the dry bones of alt-rock predictability. The hooks do not so much sharpen as bristle, each verse a deliberate misstep into chaos, all as the rhythm section pulses with enough kinetic tension to power the city’s nightlife for a week. The velvet-fanged vocals of Maria Winter are an enigma unto themselves, switching from a smoulder of indie cool to something far more feral, femme fatale poised for a coup d’état. With every flip of the arrangement, PØRTERS serve up a deft barrage of garage-tinged rock licks and thunderous percussive rolls that rattle the notion of complacency out of even the most jaded listener. It’s all fire and friction, but never without melody, the four-part harmonies arriving like ghostly apparitions in the maelstrom. Born from the varied musical DNA of the North East – a rogue’s gallery featuring past lives in Midnight Chic, Nick Gladdish Band, and Tall Shaves – PØRTERS summon all those ghosts into one punchy alt-rock séance. Across their debut EP, Motion Without Direction, they expose identity […] The post PØRTERS Channel the Haunt of Power, Harmony and Rawness in ‘Recover’ – Alt-Rock’s New North East Vanguard appeared first on A&R Factory.

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With the first scuzzy thrums of PØRTERS’ Recover, Newcastle’s fiercest five-piece lurch right out of the North Sea fog and into your speakers, jaws set, hackles up, ready to gnash at the dry bones of alt-rock predictability. The hooks do not so much sharpen as bristle, each verse a deliberate misstep into chaos, all as the rhythm section pulses with enough kinetic tension to power the city’s nightlife for a week. The velvet-fanged vocals of Maria Winter are an enigma unto themselves, switching from a smoulder of indie cool to something far more feral, femme fatale poised for a coup d’état. With every flip of the arrangement, PØRTERS serve up a deft barrage of garage-tinged rock licks and thunderous percussive rolls that rattle the notion of complacency out of even the most jaded listener. It’s all fire and friction, but never without melody, the four-part harmonies arriving like ghostly apparitions in the maelstrom. Born from the varied musical DNA of the North East – a rogue’s gallery featuring past lives in Midnight Chic, Nick Gladdish Band, and Tall Shaves – PØRTERS summon all those ghosts into one punchy alt-rock séance. Across their debut EP, Motion Without Direction, they expose identity […]

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