Westside Cowboy Signals A New Era For British Indie Rock

Clémentine Schneidermann It Goes On, the scrappily invigorating full-length debut by the U.K. band Westside Cowboy, opens with one of the year’s most exciting rock songs. A rousing mess of relentlessly chugging guitars and shout-along vocals, “Kick Stones (The Boys)” has the spirited energy of a pub band that imagines it’s playing Wembley Stadium. As the song builds from jittery, tense strums and an insistent rhythmic pulse to a crescendo of noise and hoisted lager sprays, the idea that this band might actually play in a real stadium one day suddenly seems, shockingly, plausible. Accord...

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