12 March 2008
Rob McCrae
Josh Heller, The Futureheads, Yeasayer, Sarah Warne, Poney Poney, The Electric City, Friends of the Bride, Apocalyptica, Les Savy Fav, Elbow, Trash Fashion, The Pistolas, The Raveonettes, The Teenagers, Johnny Foreigner
"There’s a military intention to its pieced together momentum and the seismic pop shift to the verse is truly sublime."
Josh Heller – Pretty GirlsAdam Green wannabe ensuring that the lyrics are understandably for builders with a cursory education to follow. Everybody knows that pretty girls get away with everything without it being expressed in a song as vapid as towel fluttering on a washing line.
The Futureheads – The Beginning of the Twist
When a band languishes around in mediocrity for so long it comes as a surprise when they pull out a song that usurps their whole setlist. As simple as a puzzle for a dunce but executed with a melody that says that this is the song to get The Futrureheads back on board.
Yeasayer – Wait for the Summer
If you like your music imbued with the sound of a hundred broken hippies harmonising in a stone circle with the backdrop of 60's alt folk so oppressive that you might as well puff on a big lentil pipe behind a poster of The Eagles then you will like this band a small amount.
Sarah Warne – Secret
Probably the daughter of an aristocrat with a captious interest in singing in front of a crowd of serfs and/or family members who will roundly applaud regardless of whether they would happily close the window even if she was performing in their back garden with The Rolling Stones.
Poney Poney – Cross The Fader
Produced by the magic fingers connected to the hand of someone from Justice, this is an impressive pulsing staccato electro whack on the chin that might sound good playing underneath a motorway flyover to a air punching group of chiselled Burberry models.
The Electric City – Dark City
This band “personally impressed Roger Daltrey” which is not something many four pieces can say, or would readily admit to. Despite this dubious acclaim, and their preoccupation with the word city, there is a verve to their sound, which resembles an expert Art Brut.
Friends of the Bride – You Can’t Take Him Anywhere
Weighed down by a slow, lugubrious delivery of a singer sounding like he’s slowly edging into a furnace at a crematorium and this is all very regretful, this situation. Patronage from Alan McGee on the cover is as significant as the band having human features.
Apocalyptica – S.O.S (Anything But Love)
Featuring the lead singer from Lacuna Coil aka a female singer angry at her margnalisation in the male-dominated rock world and translating her angst through some whiny, swirling balladeering that is as interesting as a smoke machine distributing airborne liquid particles and gases.
Les Savy Fav – Patty Lee/The Sweat Descends
Monumental single with some shimmering fret and chord work that unfortunately reminds you of early U2 when they played to worshippers in a Red Rock desert. There’s a military intention to its pieced together momentum and the seismic pop shift to the verse is truly sublime.
Elbow – Grounds For Divorce
Who would have thought that Elbow would have made a decent single? This has proper gravitas and features none of that sock-gazing indie that people like Elbow used to jettison at will.
Trash Fashion – Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Like some car crash into a fancy dress store involving four people with banned haircuts and a scattergun approach to making music which involves shouting the vocals through a loud hailer and then pouring all of the instruments into a threshing machine. Insanely shit.
The Pistolas – Hey Hey Hey
The band want it, you can almost hear them scrabbling around on their knees begging you to mention this single to someone you respect in the street. About the only good thing is the incongruous synthesiser. The chorus is like putting your head in seawater and contracting earache.
The Raveonettes – You Want The Candy
NN is sure they never sounded like they were making stupefied heroin music but clearly this is the new direction and even the most dumbest of musical scholars might point to the "candy" in the title being connected to their affinity for the lives and loves of The Jesus and Mary Chain.
The Teenagers – Love No
Cool people from France talking sniffily over 80s musical collages. The overwhelming sensation that they are pretentious whining idiots from the fourth arrondisssment is so strong that you almost find yourself enjoying their work.
Johnny Foreigner – Our Bipolar Friends
"The house party scene is killing you" is the most sensible piece of cautionary advice that this single has for you until it degenerates into a miasma of cliched indie that correlate as effectively as a spoon, a waffle and a tin hat, so basically not at all.
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