CD & DVD Reviews
LOCAL CD REVIEW Artist | The Holidays Album | Post Paradise Label | Liberation Rating |
They’ve labelled it ‘electropical’ but I think it’s more down the line of calypso crap. The Holidays are un- ashamedly poppy as always and I’m sure this album will have it’s fair share of fans, but I just couldn’t get into it without getting an ice cream headache. Words like ‘fun’, ‘nice’, ‘kitsch’ and even ‘camp’ come to mind when looking to describe The Holidays’ debut long player. Maybe I‘ll change my mind when the weather warms up and I’m listening to it with a pina colada in hand and a scantily clad model writhing up and down my leg on a steamy dance floor, but until that happens I’m just not digging it.
AUSSIE CD REVIEW Artist | Hungry Kids Of Hungary Album | Escapades Label | Stopstart Records Rating |
DVD REVIEW Title | Mother And Child Genre | Drama
Reviewer | Linda Heller-Salvador
Mother and Child may appear to be a ‘run of the mill’ drama chick-flick but the characters are well written, interesting and believable in their trag- edy, thereby giving the film far more cred than I expected. It is fairly obvious who and where the characters are in relation to ‘mother and child’ within the first five minutes of the film though. Three interweaving stories focus on a trio of women and the way they deal with the life decisions they have made, or have been made for them, which have left them lonely, confused and angry.
Karen (Annette Bening) has spent her whole life pining for the baby she had at fourteen years of age and gave up for adoption; Elizabeth (Nao- mi Watts) is fiercely independent and controlling to the point of being obsessive; and Lucy (Kerry Washington) has what she thinks is a loving husband and happy life until it comes crashing down around her. If writer/director rodrigo Garcia’s aim is to make the viewer feel some kind of squeamish empathy towards his damaged, flawed charac- ters, then he has certainly achieved his goal. You can get your mittens on a copy of Mother and Child from Blockbuster Clovelly. Give them a call on 9665 5368.
100 • the Beast
Despite the moniker, these guys are from Brisbane not the Eastern Bloc. And to tell you the truth, they don’t even look that peckish - if anything they look well fed. As far as I can tell they’re one of the podg- ier bands getting about these days, but I digress. Escapades is HKOH’s debut album and it’s been a long time coming. I asked a mate who knows stuff what he thought and he gave it one star, because “they suck, like anxiety”, but I’m not sure he’s in any condition to be giving reliable advice. I reckon people will like it, much like HKOH like the donuts.
INTERNATIONAL CD REVIEW Artist | Deerthunter Album | Halcyon Digest Label | 4AD Rating |
If you like Deerhunter, you’ll love this album. Let’s clear something up straight away though, I’m not talking about that arcade game that’s awesome fun to play in the pub when you’re shit faced (though it’s probably fair to say that a lot of people who like that game will like this album). Frontman Bradford Cox is possibly the weirdest looking rock star I have ever seen, and I’ve seen some weird ones, but his weird-lookingness hasn’t stopped him from produc- ing a fantastic, gently-paced and contented album that celebrates his creativeness without getting too carried away with eccentricities.
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