You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons feature

Redefining local music by mixing Eastern influences with punk ethics, the soundscapes of You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons are both chilling and fascinating. Disposing of foppish haircuts and indie antics in favour of clarity and spiritual belonging, the Demons evoke the mind, body and soul. More specifically, their psychedelically shaded masterpieces are well-grounded within the Pop Underground scene which began in their home town of Portsmouth and is now spreading, despite any reluctance by any other scene which may have enjoyed an easy ride over the last ten years.  

Maturing with each album, the Demons’ significant beginnings lie with a no holds barred Hot Snakes-influenced sound, dominated with feedback and guitar-pedal virtuosity. The foundations built with this red hot mix of subterranean drum and bass squelches and desperate almost Television-like vocals. In all their recent endeavours, the Demons’ have channelled into a rare observational gaze which can be seen in their oblique song-writing.  Instrumentally, a raw sounding search and destroy technique is detrimental when it comes to picking out faults and ironic nuances in what could be explained as erratic human nature.

The band, who have enjoyed exposure on the late John Peel’s radio show and supporting slots for the MC5 and The Warlocks prefer to identify themselves as an “armchair rock band” declaring “we sit back and if we’re offered something, we’ll take it”. However, this was quickly followed up by saying they would often “put on our own gigs”. This DIY ethic is now common practice for this and its “brother and sister bands” also known as Sad Shields, Epideme, Elapse-o, Big Squirrel and Lovvers.