CODA

Sound:
Girl-Fronted, muscular yet melodic alternative rock.

Sounds Like:
A fusion of Queens of The Stone Age and Garbage being torn to shreds by Sleater-Kinney. Its full-on, fast-paced, sometimes monolithically heavy and always kept right on the edge by singer Julianne Shaw's viciously powerful vocals. It's easy to imagine songs like 'They're Closing In' and 'Cold Sweat Tears' played live and loud creating something of a mini riot in the moshpit

Worth a mention:
The band recently put out Burn The Wire, a self-released, three-track E which you can get your mitts on digitally via www.tunetribe.com, or physically via www.codaonline.co.uk

Contact:
Where else but Myspace? Got to www.myspace.com/codaonline, where you'll find standout track 'The Reason', a powerful, engaging blast of dark melody and caustic guitars.

Gonnabes?
A Plethora of positve noises in irish press could just be the just of things for CODA. The band are playing their first London gig at the Dublin Castle on 23rd September - of you happen to be in the capital that day, get your moshing boots on and get on down. - MusicMart Magazine

CODA are a four-piece female-fronted band from Northern Ireland who have unleashed their brash brand of pop-rock with a three-track CD. 'Cold Sweat Tears' is a frantic guitar-driven tune on which Julianne Shawe comes on like a female Bono from the early years, while the band have the edgy guitars we now associate with the Artic Monkeys. 'Burn The Wire' is equally urgent, with choppy rhythms and a more impassioned vocal that leans towards the Brody Dalle end of the music Spectrum. The incendiary 'Let's Digress' has some sandpaper guitars and much of the fiery arrogance of Ash, but it borrows some of the intensity of Queens of The Stone Age. - Hotpress

We kick off this weeks knock-about of pure fun with a listen to the excellent new EP by Coda, Burn The Wire, which the Belfast-based quartet launched last Tuesday with a gig at Auntie Annies. The more clued-in among you will have been in attendance and in all probability, were sold enough on their catchy energetic rock attack to purchase a CD then and there. However, for those who were unable to attend or simply unwilling to abondon their sofa for even a couple of hours to check out some top local music, take heed of the following words of praise.

Burn the wire may only be three tracks long but those nine minutes of breathless guitar, bass and drum wrangling allow Coda to make their mark effectively. What we're dealing with here is not a total lack of respect for the law, but rather a band who have successfully mastered the delicate balance between catchiness and crunchiness.

opener Cold Sweat Tears goes for an urgent melodic US indie rock feel in the vein of Seafood (and yeah , I know they're from England but they stole most of their moves from Sonic youth circa 1989). Powered along by an urgent bassline, the guitars rev and splinter off on widdly tangents.

The Coda boy/girl vocal combination is immediately addictive, with frontwoman and guitarist Julianne Shaw's easy-on-the-ear singing nicely setting off second guitar slinger Adam Shirlow's At The Drive-In inspired backing yelps.

Title track Burn The Wire flirts with gruntling drum and bass disco rock, repeatedly spiralling of the dancefloor in a whirl of frantic guitar mangling for the choruses and occasionally making a brief but satisfying lunge towards full-on fuzz riff powered hyperspace. "You cant resist this, you know that this is bigger than you", they sing frantically and repeatedly. It certainly sound like they know what they're talking about anyway.

Though they save it til last, the live favorite Let's Digress, is the most immediate song here, a neat slice of dynamic loud/quiet/LOUD punk rock that hooks you right away with some "ooh-ohh" vocal colouring courtesy of julianne.

She catches the song hurtling full pelt out of the verse delivering an eye of the storm style plaintive chorus before things explode into life again. Its a simple but effective technique and byt he time things end rather noisily with a Huggy Bear style boy/girl shout off, you'll want to hear it again.

- The Irish News

Launching tonight is the latest Coda EP, 'Burn The Wire'. If you don't know Coda, then I recommend you get yourself along to one of their gigs - it's cracking alternative/rock music and tunes that master that most difficult of balancing acts - mainstream v credibility, scoring highly on both counts. Even technical hitches cannot stop them, merely providing momentary light rhythm section relief. Ms Shawe's vocals and stage presence bare comparison with Brody Dalle and PJ Harvey, and the duel guitar attack is what Tim Wheeler, among others, has dreamed of doing for years, but never been able to achieve. Musically, it's hit after hit of grungy alternative melodic rock-punk-pop, with highlights all over the place - 'End Of The Line', 'Burn The Wire' (which burns its way into your skull) and 'Let's Digress' are all fantastic, and worthy of a bigger stage than this. It's always great to see a band grow as these guys have over the last couple of years, and it's at the point now where it should be an album rather than an EP. A coda itself is an afterthought or an addition - these guys are the main event.

William Johnston - BBC Across The Line