King Cannons Brightest Light

'The Brightest Light' is the debut album from kiwi rock band, King Cannons. Their road is long and winding, nearly 36 months veering through remote parts of rural NZ and the UK all the way to their current HQ: Melbourne, Australia.

It's a simple ethos that hasn't changed since day one. Soul food. Six good friends coming together to create music crafted from their many different individual influences and inspirations.

The result is ferocious. A constantly evolving, roots and punk based rock'n'roll sound with an unmistakable underlying political agenda -- never give up.

From Springsteen to The Clash. Chuck Berry to the ease of a Jamaican Sunday. King Cannons play with the live commitment of the MC5 before the outbreak of violent protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It's music for everyone who shares in that sentiment.

To find the real beginning of King Cannons is to go back to the street corner where a ten-year-old Luke Yeoward struggled to wield the acoustic guitar handed down to him by his mother. With a hat at his feet, Yeoward played covers he'd picked up at home and school: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neil Young and Cat Stevens, as well as primitive songs he'd written from the chords he knew.

King Cannons' self-titled EP, released in late 2010, showed what was on the horizon with live-recorded tracks "Take the Rock" and "Teenage Dreams", the latter described by Yeoward as the most personal song he'd written up to that time. On the lead up to the recording of the band's debut album, Yeoward locked himself in the music room of his house and wrote every day for two months, landing the gang with over 50 tracks to work from.

1. Stand Right Up
2. Too Young
3. The Brightest Light
4. Too Hot To Handle
5. Call For Help
6. Shot To Kill
7. Ride Again
8. Charlie O
9. The Cool Change
10. On Our Own
11. Everyman's Tale
12. The Last Post