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Alice Rock - Kill or Cure EP
www.alice-rock.co.uk
Bubblegum pop shot through with witty lyrics, as purveyed by a lively boy/girl duo. Ting Tings sound-a-likes, then? Not really. Alice Rock’s scratchy bedroom street punk sounds much closer in spirit to the Rezillos or The Slits. This is life from the point of view of the modern teenage suburban misfi t, struggling to make sense of it all whilst stumbling along with holes in their stripy tights. Whereas Lilly Allen arguably captured the voice of the modern urban twenty something, Alice Rock sound more like angry marginalised outsiders, the lyrics wryly poke fun at day to day suburban life to a soundtrack of tinny
guitars and thrashing drums that are the perfect counterpoint to vocalist Alice’s rebellious teen snarl. Intelligently rendered pure pop that doesn’t take itself too seriously, Alice Rock is a perfect little pop-tastic package.
The Smoking Rollo Sideshow - Rocket Silence CD
www.thesmokingrolosideshow.com
A sprawlingly ambitious project headed by singer songwriter Ben Greener, who leads his vast collective of musicians through a quintessentially English landscape that references some of the best English and U.S progressive rock. The glacial Go winds through the LP’s heart at a leisurely 10-plus minutes, its early Pink Floyd backwash gently gathering momentum like a stone rolled down a mossy hillside. By contrast, Everywhere And Nowhere and Dig are soaring stoner rock wig-outs that sound like Marc Bolan returning
from the grave to jam with Queens of the Stone Age. Despite the music’s occasionally disparate feel, which is an inevitable result of such a large collective, this album’s self assured tone suggests music created in the spirit of pure enjoyment, rather than actively pursuing any commercial gain. For that reason alone, it’s diffi cult to see where this project can progress unless they are lucky enough to get a track selected for the lucrative world of TV background music.
The Parks Dept. - No/Noise CD No web details included… naughty, naughty! Glitchy indie electro pop diligently helmed by producer and main song writer Luke Farmer. Pulsing sequenced lines rub shoulders with throbbing basses, bubbling fi zzing synth and what sounds to our ears like live drums; the trouble is that this music feels a bit like a Japanese car: skilfully assembled but ultimately soulless. The air of studied detachment recalls Before and After Science era Brian Eno or even the Pet Shop Boys, only without much evidence of the humanity that Eno or Neil Tennant and co use to offset their stark and sterile electronics. Ironically, the robot-swear fest that is OK, we’re F&cking Partying Now is probably the most emotionally engaging track of
all...it’s speech
synthesised rant is both unsettling and funny, a bit like a Derek & Clive sketch performed by Stephen Hawking stricken with Tourette’s Syndrome!
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Sensorites - Spacemen CD single
www.myspace.com/sensorites Brothers Nathan and Gareth Kirkham deliver an impressively packaged CD that is styled to resemble a miniature vinyl LP. We like. The tune, however, sounds a bit insipid. After an ace guitar intro that sounds like it was pulled directly from Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds album, the track dips into a dreary indie plod. The languid vocal, delivered in a limp faux Mancunian drawl, doesn’t really help to generate much excitement; Ian Brown might get away with it but then again he is a master of making a little go a long way. This tune stokes up less energy than a fi rst year sociology student complaining about having to get out of bed in time to make a midday lecture! Nicely recorded, brilliantly packaged but ultimately disappointing. Shame.
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“Oh, I feel a strange twitching in my hips!”
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