SHAUNA TOHILL HAS just finished her hospital shift when Classic Rock calls her one rainy Thursday in August. Since lockdown put her/Rews’ touring plans on hold, the singer/guitarist has been working there as a physiotherapy assistant. “I’m a massage therapist on the side of music,” she says, “so it made sense to do something like that and help people out as much as I could at this time.”
That empathetic streak is reflected in Rews’ new album, Warriors, which taps in to the sort of anxieties and relationship turmoil most of us face. A matured step up from their 2017 debut Pyro, it’s a melodic, urgent mash-up of prime-cut 90s sensibilities and the sort of sounds Blondie might have made if they’d jammed with Queens Of The Stone Age.