Listen: Nai Harvest – “Rush”

Emo’s dead, you say? Well, nobody has informed Nai Harvest, Sheffield’s sniveling two-piece, of that fact. Even if you did, you get the distinct sense that they wouldn’t care anyway. Fashionable or not, “Rush” is here, and we’re rather happy about it.

The track is driven by the man behind the kit – like most beefy rock offcuts often are – who battles against a wall of lethargic guitar and distant vocals. Despite the shortsightedness of their somewhat blurred ‘emo’ tag, “Rush” feels unexpectedly widescreen in scale.

“Everything I love is dead”, Ben Thompson laments, as the hum of his venomous guitar fades. Wallowing in somebody else’s misery has never been such a twisted pleasure. Listen below.