We Are The In Crowd at Koko 10.02.14

We Are The In Crowd
Koko, London  10.02.14

We Are The In Crowd have always had team effort scribbled all over the five piece and each member walks with a spring in their step. But that positivity has since been combined with much more bite. In the last five years, We Are The In Crowd have set sail with just the one album supercharged with catchy pop hooks backed by a lively beat and rising sing-alongs, putting them at the centre of pop-punk. Ahead of their forthcoming release Weird Kids, the once happy-go-lucky team order a UK tour to serve some of their finest new material.

There’s two Taylors in town tonight. Tay Jardine of We Are The In Crowd however has a certain edge of confidence to her. The front woman joined by her team members test the waters by erupting into The Best Thing (That Never Happened) and Manners, both fresh from the studio. And despite The Worst Thing About Me and Kiss Me Again being more familiar it’s the fresher tunes getting tipped. There’s something sinister though, on the one hand they seem like the cheerful post-teens in For The Win, but on the other Windows In Heaven and Long Live The Kids shed a layer to convey a mature side who now have something else on their minds. The singer tells the crowd how Weird Kids isn’t a t-shirt slogan but more defining that “we’re one of you” before pouncing into Attention.

We Are The In Crowd pull out all the stops to make sure their pop-punk roots aren’t being masked with the brilliant Exits And Entrances. They can add another year to their books and they can play songs that are yet to be released officially with bundles of certainty but they can also have the metabolism to carry a second full-length into future set lists, upgrading their mild pop-punk to something with way more depth. But that doesn’t mean Both Sides Of The Story and Rumour Mill aren’t the best way to see off team We Are The In Crowd for now.