This album is just annoying. The whining of the singer, the guitar sounding as if they’ve let a three year old get hold of the guitar and the drumming sounds like they’re using dead babies as drumsticks. This album just plain sucks.
It’s like they’ve played 2 Rolling Stones and Pixies songs to some eight year olds and then told them to go ahead and make some music, a strange pong emanates from my headphones and I’m almost certain that it’s the music making that smell. That may just be me though.
I look at the playlist and groan with despair as I see I still have 6 songs to listen to on this album and I’m just plain fed up with this band, and I think they should Maybe? get their tiny pretentious arses out of my ears and Promise me that they’ll stick their instruments up there instead. Any band that has punctuation in their name (incorrectly used) should shut up and go back to school and learn something of use, as I predict that they’re not going to be bothering me for much longer with music. Maybe? they could be a tramp’s PA or something.
There is one promising part to this album and that’s when it ends.
It’s not that this band are just another generic indie band, because they’re not, and that’s an insult to generic indie bands. Although I do commend them for trying something, even though it fails on a huge level. This band should be aspiring to be ‘just another indie band’.
The songs are too repetitive. The songs are too repetitive. The songs are too repetitive.
And Boring.
They songs are also too long, although I think that this is only as a result of time slowing down when this album is played.
Listen to this album: If you want your head to feel as though it is being pulled, slowly but firmly upwards.
Rating: 52%
Extracts from ‘Modern Love’, ‘Full Moon’, ‘Disappear’ and ‘Promise’
Having read the 3 step guide to singing modern indie, Santogold realises she read the copy for men.
This is quite a confusing album because she sets out to break in to a genre very much dominated by white people and fails very badly with it, although when it comes to the songs which are more reggae and hip hop influenced, they are very good. Even though she says she “has made a point of not performing R&B or rap like other “brown girls”,saying she is “not like Ciara.” Wiki
These are some of the best songs on the album, and it also sounds a bit pretentious, why can’t she just do it and not mention race?
The indie based songs are bad, it sounds forced and not very good. It’s like the male singer of some naff indie band has had his balls chopped off. Every song that isn’t grouped into this genre is exceptionally good.
‘Shove it’ which has some reggae sounding influences is very enjoyable, ‘Creator’ which is very hip hop had me dancing in my seat and ‘My Superman’ which sounds more like something Goldfrapp would produce is lovely.
Overall, this album is good once you cut out the indie bits, all the other stuff is really very good. Some interesting influences are brought in to play in the album and more than a couple of times i was jigging away to her tunes.
While trying to pic some samples to put below here, I found myself wanting to put most of the songs on, so that goes to show that there must be a good few worthy of putting up., I was just very put off by the indie.
Listen to this album: Covering your ears when she tries to do indie.
Rating: 80%
Extracts from ‘Shove It’, ‘Say Aha’, ‘Creator’ and ‘My Superman’
