GANS - 'IT'S JUST LIFE'
Birmingham duo GANS are steamrolling through the post-punk scene, releasing another bone rattler of a track, IT’S JUST LIFE, along with announcing their debut album.
Emerging from Birmingham in 2024, the duo, comprising of Euan Woodman and Thomas Rhodes have been on a trajectory that’s pointing only one way. Their last single, I THINK I LIKE YOU, the grungey, brainworm of a track, landed them on the BBC Radio 6 playlist, introducing a whole new range of listeners to the world of GANS. Now, the duo have released their newest single ‘IT’S JUST LIFE’, and have also announced the release of their debut album GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
‘IT’S JUST LIFE’ opens with a flurry of drums and guitars before the immediate punch in the gut vocals “spent your life thinking / forgetting how to feel /…it’s just life,” hit you. It infiltrates the mind immediately, scratching a cerebral itch. And GANS are certainly not boxing themselves into one specific style; instead they’re constantly pushing the boundaries of their sound, something evident throughout this latest single. The repetitive, disco-esque beat from the synths, behind the rawness of the guitar and drums, is a neat little addition, taking the track up another level.
GANS are developing a distinctive and infectious sound, and have proved that with the release of ‘I THINK I LIKE YOU’. They’ve kept up that momentum in ‘IT’S JUST LIFE’, which, although different, still harbours that typical GANS ernergy.
The heavy, pulsating sound of ‘IT’S JUST LIFE’ is accompanied by the duo’s sharp, biting vocals - the speed of the chorus, and the build up to the bridge carries an air of protest to it, “money! work! power! freedom! prison! school! success! legion! living! dying! thriving! surviving!” - it’s two minutes and forty-seven seconds of insane, chaotic, brilliant energy.
Words by Angela English
