Lucky Jack/Build Around Me by I Concur

Seven-inch single review I scribbled for This Is Fake DIY (well, not so much scribbled as lovingly composed):

Leaving the snug surroundings of Dance to the Radio compilations, Leeds-based quartet I Concur go it alone with debut double A-side Lucky Jack / Build Around Me.
And it’s a shoegaze romp of guitars churning away like Explosions in the Sky, or any bearded post-rock Canadian band you wish to name. Both (very similar) songs tread the well-trodden shoegazer path of opening in a rumble of quietly portentous guitars, then it goes all loud and exciting followed by another chin-stroking quiet bit. Finally, it goes really LOUD. With a barrage of cymbals pummelling away to confirm that yes, you have reached the climax. So far, so above average anger-driven, vaguely intellectual rock. But this is Jesus & Mary Chain without any issues. This is My Bloody Valentine renting a city centre flat with laminate flooring. It wants to be angry, really it does, but it doesn’t have anything to be angry about. In Lucky Jack, singer Tim Hann shrugs off vague lyrical metaphors about cannons, sunrise and stalkers. On Build Around Me he murmurs ‘there’s no negotiation or debate, just build around me,’ defeated in the face of progressing luxury flats. A shame that I Concur sound crushed by the growth of urban regeneration and inherent alienation, as there is a deliciously ominous roar to some of their reverberating guitar work.