11 June 2008
Tom Mendelsohn
Gnarls Barkley, Feeder, Alex Gaudino, Electricity In Our Homes, The Steeples, Apache, Mattafix, Answers On Postcards, Jyrojets, The Black Keys, The Maybes?, The Music, Little Man Tate
"NN will venture out on a limb; Gnarls' best work since 'Crazy'."
Gnarls Barkley – Going OnNN will venture out on a limb: this is Gnarls' best work since 'Crazy'. This is the only CD we are keeping this week for non-babe reasons (see below).
Feeder – We Are The People
God, imagine if it was YOUR grandparents making crappy 'atmospheric' Britrock. Cringe. In sounds-like terms, this is Feeder set to 'heavy' and 'downbeat'. So, not much evidence of either, then, but a preponderance of 'shallow'. We like it. Hush.
Alex Gaudino feat Shena – Watch Out
While the music is funky balearic shite of the lowest order, and in any fair world we should want no more to do with this release, the girls in the video are cosmic hot and we are powerless...to...resist...
Electricity In Our Homes – We Thought It Was, But It Wasn't
What they thought was that bad East London punk-funk was still in fashion. At least they worked it out in the end.
The Steeples – Loosy Lucy
Remarkably, despite everything, people are still copying the Libertines. They're still doing it badly, too.
Apache – Boys Life
Imagine the Beach Boys. Nice, huh? Now imagine them if they'd written their songs using only one note. Now imagine they'd fed that single note through a cheap fuzzbox. Now imagine they couldn't sing or write songs. Apache are like that but worse. Way, way worse. Happily for us all, they'll all be back working in Urban Outfitters any minute.
Mattafix – Things Have Changed
The spirit of Morcheeba forges ever on.
Answers On Postcards – [nameless EP]
And it shall remain nameless, because words rude enough haven't been invented. Some people, lads, aren't cut out to be in bands.
Jyrojets – Dead On Arrival
Epic like The Bravery; of appeal, however limited in scope.
The Black Keys – I Got Mine
The Overrated Keys more like. Blues rock is so 2001 or 2002 or whenever it was we were all mistakenly listening to bad blues rock. Move along please; everyone else has.
The Maybes? - Boys
Promising for just over six seconds, after which this song so stop-start, arrhythmic and downright rubbish it barely warrants review as music. Name me a good band to come from Liverpool. One good band!
The Music- Strength In Numbers
Did you know if you rewind from 0:00 on track 1 of The Music's debut album, you find a really well hidden secret track, which is, in fact, their best ever song? No, it's not just a caustic outspill of partially formed insults on NN's watch. This song sounds exactly how all their others do. Like it or lump it? You decide.
Little Man Tate – What Your Boyfriend Said
Astonishingly, Little Man Tate are STILL going. We'd have put our house on their being dropped by now, had we had a house – phew! This release is the direct result of allowing the lumpenproletariat at guitars; if there's any justice at all, this'll surely be it for them.
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