The Alicias Revitalised Alt-Rock with Volition Personified in JPJ Blues

The Alicias have restored some much-needed kinetic indie alt-rock exhilaration to Manchester’s music scene with their single, JPJ Blues. Manchester felt a little poorer without The Maitlands tearing around it with their devil-may-care debonair on an existential bar crawl energy, but Ste Moran has once again proven his songwriting mettle, this time with The Alicias. With a rhythm section that carries the rallying intensity of a war horn blown to deploy the vanguard and guitars that sear through frenetic melodicism in all the right places, The Alicias have unleashed a furiously euphoric anthem that tempers all that visceralism with vocals echoing the suave magnetism of Incubus. The instrumentals only hold back to give their songwriting the spotlight, proving that walls of sound deserve a place in alt-rock as much as in shoegaze. It’s perfection, volition personified; it’s not a question of whether The Alicias deserve a spot on your radar, it’s whether your playlists are worthy of hosting such infectiously angsty aural gold. Based in Bury, The Alicias mix big riffs with pop-driven vocals, straddling power and aggression while keeping things danceable. Since their debut in 2024, they’ve released three singles and their first EP ‘What In Me Is Dark’ […] The post The Alicias Revitalised Alt-Rock with Volition Personified in JPJ Blues appeared first on A&R Factory.

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The Alicias have restored some much-needed kinetic indie alt-rock exhilaration to Manchester’s music scene with their single, JPJ Blues. Manchester felt a little poorer without The Maitlands tearing around it with their devil-may-care debonair on an existential bar crawl energy, but Ste Moran has once again proven his songwriting mettle, this time with The Alicias. With a rhythm section that carries the rallying intensity of a war horn blown to deploy the vanguard and guitars that sear through frenetic melodicism in all the right places, The Alicias have unleashed a furiously euphoric anthem that tempers all that visceralism with vocals echoing the suave magnetism of Incubus. The instrumentals only hold back to give their songwriting the spotlight, proving that walls of sound deserve a place in alt-rock as much as in shoegaze. It’s perfection, volition personified; it’s not a question of whether The Alicias deserve a spot on your radar, it’s whether your playlists are worthy of hosting such infectiously angsty aural gold. Based in Bury, The Alicias mix big riffs with pop-driven vocals, straddling power and aggression while keeping things danceable. Since their debut in 2024, they’ve released three singles and their first EP ‘What In Me Is Dark’ […]

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