16 June 2008
Rob McCrae
Sonny J, Thea Gilmore, Sway, Sebastian, Out From Animals, The Hair, 28 Costumes, Dark Captain Light Captain, Caspa Codina, Mirror Mirror, The Postmarks
"The sound of a Turbo Outrun car switching through the gears, racing around a city scape."
Sonny J – Hands Free (If You Hold My Hand)A joyous hand clap sound of the sixties seen through a wry lyrical filter, star jumping out of your stereo with the verve of a Bond theme where our misogynistic hero shoots a Russian to the madcap background of a beach party. Truly uplifting.
Thea Gilmore – Old Soul
The aural equivalent of digging an allotment in leather patched trousers and then catching your wizened partner smiling benignly in your direction as a ball of snot inflates in their left nostril. The sound of old age.
Sway – F Ur X feat. $tush
Everybody’s fifth favourite UK grime artist releases what could be a phone conversation backed up by a tweaked game boy. It’s low key but features a slick selection of lines that suggests that Sway knocked this one out while on his hands free sorting through his trainers. He will do better.
Sebastian – Motor Momy Army
Ed Banger guy Sebastian releases the sound of a Turbo Outrun car switching through the gears, racing around a city scape dodging cars all of which are playing Sebastian tunes, thus sounding very similar, but in an exhilarating way this flicks all the switches in your addled mind.
Out From Animals – The National Curriculum
Bratty insolence is easy to enjoy and any song that repeats certain sections of its song with religious zeal is going to hammer itself inside your head whether you like it or not. Their predilection towards animals on the single cover suggests a devotion that runs parallel to the music.
The Hair – Blood
Dark things are expected from a band who out of the forty billion combinations of words in the English language decided to call themselves The Hair. There’s no Lazarus style resurrection from this moniker hell and this is as derivative as a fax sounding like The Klaxons forced to support The Paddingtons and imitate their sound.
28 Costumes – Erika
If they green lit an indie competition where bands were forced to come up with a new twist on the generic indie sound and it was arranged in such a way that the losers in the first round were shot to death on a beach, then 28 Costumes would be shot to death on a beach.
Dark Captain Light Captain – Circles
Comfortably campfire musings played softly by passive people who would never hurt you. At one point there’s the faint murmur of a plucked guitar solo that may take it out of the pleasant folk realm but this is quickly suppressed.
Caspa Codina – Used To Go Dancing
Electronic remix dilettante (Christina Aguilera/Soft Cell) Gabriel Olegavich created this alter ego to produce futuristic synth beats with the occasional blast from a space gun. If you investigate further into the remixes then something of a good feeling emerges like this is a man in total control of his keyboards. With a Prince like funk.
Mirror Mirror – New Horizons
A psychedelic smorgasbord with numerous echoes of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and pictures in your mind of men with long beards swaying like daisies in the breeze. Ideal for the Green Man festival or any forest based live performance.
The Postmarks – Goodbye
It’s wrong to read too much into a band name but The Postmarks suggest that they’re going to be a smudge on your horizon and sure enough their whimsical ethereal ditties are as inspiring as a broken spade and tail off into the distance like a distant farmer ploughing fields further and further away.
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Charlie Noise said on June 17th 2008 [report abuse]
I don't know what happened to 28 Costumes. They have some great songs ('You Excite Me', 'Inside/Outside', 'Fraudulent', 'Hurricane'), but I just can't get into the new stuff. No-one else will have even heard of em, but for about a year, they were the best band in Liverpool, bar none.