ALBUM REVIEW: 'The VCR' | The VCR

After a bit of time away, Birmingham's The VCR began making music again at the back end of 2019, and those last few months of the decade saw the release of three singles - each being played on BBC Introducing, two of these being Brum Radio's Track of the Week - and a sold out headliner at the Sunflower Lounge. The band played various gigs all over Birmingham, immersing themselves once again into the scene that they know and love.

The 4-piece, made up of Ian Rushton, Joe Ivory, Josh Kirby, and Matt Moxon, stopped making music together a while back, but myself and other fans are oh so glad they've chosen to pursue music again.

At the start of 2020 we were welcomed with The VCR, the eponymous debut LP. It's an album about themselves, as we explore the brotherhood they have within the band, and turmoil they've experienced whilst trying to strive to gain the recognition they need and want in order to grow. Having found their love for music at the age of thirteen, the boys have spent many years working on their sound and figuring out what kind of music it is that they want to produce. Everything they do is based on their love of music, and anything or anyone that wants to taint that gets ignored - they work together in their own little bubble of love and music, working to create tracks that they themselves would want to listen to. Being referred to as sounding similar to the likes of The Strokes, Oasis, and OG Kings of Leon, The VCR's career in music is already off to a good start - or, I think it is anyway; I'd be thrilled if somebody told me I sounded like the Gallaghers. The VCR have created an upbeat, vivacious album that features the much loved Lovesong, and the reaction since the release has been immense.

Where's this year going to take The VCR? Nobody knows, but I hope they go far.