Calm Attack Enters the Alternative Rock Ranking with This Is Our Time, Filmed on the Arbroath Cliffs
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Calm Attack Enters the Alternative Rock Ranking with This Is Our Time, Filmed on the Arbroath Cliffs
An Aberdeenshire Trio’s 2022 Single for Listeners Raised on Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic
This Is Our Time enters the alternative rock ranking on the strength of an early tally. Eight outlets, from Spain to Brazil, reviewed or featured it after its release on 14 October 2022. The single comes from Calm Attack, an alternative rock trio from Aberdeenshire, and it still suits the listeners those writers had in mind.
Calm Attack’s single is in the playlist below, next to other rock and alternative picks from this desk. The trio’s features are kept together on the band’s artist profile. This Is Our Time came to BestMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Press play first, then read on.
Who This Is Our Time by Calm Attack Is For, From Biffy Clyro Fans to Post-Rock Listeners
The first audience is easy to name. It is the listener raised on the big Scottish alt-rock sound. Mystic Sons heard the same broad, soaring style as Biffy Clyro and Twin Atlantic, and the comparison holds. Biffy Clyro built an arena audience as a three-piece whose choruses arrive late and land hard. Calm Attack are also a trio, and the lift in their chorus does similar work.
Twin Atlantic matter for a second reason. The band started out in 2019 playing covers, then moved on to their own songs. Since then, they have shared stages with Twin Atlantic, The Xcerts and The Twilight Sad. That is a short route from covers to support slots, and it tells you who the song is aimed at.
A Quiet-to-Loud Build and an Arbroath Cliffs Video Widen the Audience for Calm Attack
The second audience likes a slower build. The song opens on a synth texture and bold drums, then pulls back to a moody vocal and reverb before the chorus drives it forward. Thoughts Words Action heard traces of post-rock, indie rock and emo in the mix, and it also shared its review on LinkedIn. Listeners who like that quiet-to-loud shape will find a lot to follow here.
The third audience wants a message as well as a melody. The video, directed by Stuart Alexander, was filmed on the Arbroath Cliffs. It cuts between the band playing outdoors and images of dry, burnt land. Music For All read those images as a warning about climate change. Seen that way, the title reads like a call to act while there is still time.
The line-up is plain and stated once. Chris Paterson sings and plays guitar, Rory Jamieson plays bass and Lucas Zawadski plays drums.
Early Response From Spain to Brazil Put This Is Our Time Into the Alternative Rock Conversation
The early response came quickly, and it came from several directions. KIMU called the single emotive and empowering and added it to its New Music Spotlight playlist. It’s All Indie praised the energy in the trio’s playing and said the chorus makes you want to sing along by the end. Meanwhile, Illustrate Magazine heard keyboard and drums carrying an 80s feel through the rock. Each outlet heard a slightly different record, which is a good sign for a song with more than one audience.
Coverage also reached beyond the UK. In Spain, CrazyMinds introduced the band on release day and noted their Biffy Clyro and Thirty Seconds to Mars influences. In Brazil, Indie O’Clock called the single powerful.
The Scottish Stages and Radio Support Behind the Calm Attack Audience
Behind the reviews sits a live audience built the slow way. It’s All Indie noted that BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio had already picked up the band. In addition, the support slots with Twin Atlantic, The Xcerts and The Twilight Sad put them in front of crowds who already knew the sound. The band’s own X profile lists Thirty Seconds to Mars, Biffy Clyro, Bush and Twin Atlantic as influences, which maps the same audience from the other side.
That community is the reason to return to a 2022 single now. This Is Our Time was the band’s second single that year, and it followed a run of EPs and a collection of B-sides and demos. As a result, it works as a way into a catalogue that is larger than one song.
BestMusic.News’s curator team: “The pull-back before the chorus is the move that earns this one a place. The band drop almost everything out and let the vocal sit in the reverb for a moment. Then they bring the whole trio back at once.”
Where to Stream and Follow Calm Attack After This Is Our Time
For a first listen, watch the video before you stream the track, so the cliffs and the burnt land frame the chorus. Then go back to Demons, the earlier single Mystic Sons mentioned alongside it, and to KIMU’s other pick, Nothing Lasts Forever. If you want to own the music rather than stream it, Bandcamp is the direct route.
Stream Calm Attack on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and SoundCloud, and watch more on their YouTube channel. Follow the band on Instagram, TikTok, X and Facebook. Their official website collects the rest.
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