The Rise Of The Tiger Shadow

• Posted: Thu 27 Aug 2009
• By: Kev

While a lot of people that don't dig a bit deeper into the city of Leeds and it's music scene will probably have an image of us producing hundreds of bands that all sound like the Kaiser Chiefs and The Pigeon Detectives, they couldn't be further from the truth if they bothered to look.

All you need to do is scratch the surface of our mainstream breakthrough bands and you'll see a wealth of very diverse talent bubbling underneath, something that is emphasised really well by a band like Tiger Shadow who have too many influences to list and so many genres that they straddle, that they are the musical equivalent of a game of twister!

Their debut album The Rise Of Tiger Shadow would from the outside looking in have the look of a normal guitar group in the set up, but this four-piece have loftier ambitions than that as they encompass elements of funk, world music and a heavy dose of hip hop.

Tracks like This Is The Future, Vernacular Spectacular, Star Chaser and That's Because It Is are instant favourites of mine, but in truth you won't find a duff track on here....highly recommended stuff.