Monolith Cocktail Monthly Revue: January 2022: Trupa Trupa, Jam Baxter, Binker & Moses, Silverbacks…
January 28, 2022
PLAYLIST REVUE/Picked By Dominic Valvona, Matt Oliver, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea’ and Graham Domain
The inaugural “revue” playlist of 2022 from the Monolith Cocktail team picks up on a few stragglers from the end of last year plus a load of eclectic treasures from the last month. The Monthly is a sort of summary; an encapsulation of the music we’ve loved, reviewed and picked up on during January.
That track list in full::
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee ‘Kurunba’
Avalanche Kaito ‘Dabalomuni’
Melt Yourself Down ‘Balance’
Detective Larsson ‘Magic Show’
Trupa Trupa ‘Uniforms’
Thyla ‘Amber Waits’
Claptrap ‘Out Of’
Spaceface ‘Long Time’
Kristine Leschper ‘Picture Window’
RULES ‘Ghost’
Labelle ‘élude’
Nyokabi Kariuki ‘Equator Song’
Pleasure Craft ‘Dead Weight’
Lion’s Drum ‘Kami Shintai’
Selci ‘Ghost’
The Jazz Butcher ‘Running On Fumes’
Tom Shotton ‘Here, Always’
Wesley Gonzalez ‘Greater Expectations’
FNKPMPN ‘The Typical Boob’
Sylph ‘Ancient Hole’
Rob Burger ‘Hotel For Saints’
Letters From Mouse ‘Elizabeth’
Sarah Vaughan ‘Inner City Blues’
Kojey Radical Ft. Knucks ‘Payback’
Jam Baxter ‘Go On’
Cephas Teom ‘Primordial Forms’
Buck & Gase And Rahrah Gabor ‘Pass Impasse’
Andrew Heath, Phonsonic & Simon McCorry ‘The Passage Of Time (Live)’
King Kashmere, Cupp Cave, Herrmutt Lobby & Booda French ‘Donuts’
The Doppelgangaz ‘Concord Grapes’
Nelson Dialect & Mr Slipz ‘Only Just Begun’
Binker And Moses ‘Accelerometer Overdose (Edit)’
Ashinoa ‘Disguised In Orbit’
Bollards ‘Plate Up’
Salem Trials ‘Funkytown’
Chris Church ‘We’re Going Downtown’
Michael Rother & vittoria Maccabruni ‘Exp 1’
Laurie Anderson – The Arca Remix ‘Big Science’
Kate Havnevik ‘Dream Her To Life’
Bagaski ‘Campan’
Roedelius & Tim Story ‘Crisscrossing’
EXEK ‘Unseasonable Warmth’
Deserta ‘Where Did You Go’
Silverbacks ‘Archive Material’
Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea’s Reviews Column
The cult leader of the infamous lo fi gods, The Bordellos, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea has released countless recordings over the decades with his family band of hapless unfortunates, and is the owner of a most self-deprecating sound-off style blog. His most recent releases include the King Of No-Fi album, a collaborative derangement with the Texas miscreant Occult Character, Heart To Heart, and a series of double-A side singles (released so far, ‘Shattered Pop Kiss/Sky Writing’, ‘Daisy Master Race/Cultural Euthanasia’, ‘Be My Maybe/David Bowie’ and All Psychiatrists Are Bastards / Will I Ever Be A Man). He has also released, under the Idiot Blur Fanboy moniker, a stripped-down classic album of resignation and Gallagher brothers’ polemics. His latest album Atlantic Crossing, a long overdue released collaboration with 20th Century Tokyo Princess’s Ted Clark, was released last month. Plus a new album entitled Cardboard Box Beatle will be released next month by Metal Postcard Records.
Each month we supply him with a mixed bag of new and upcoming releases to see what sticks.
The Singles.
The NoMen & The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies ‘The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth’
(Self-Release) 1st January 2022
The ideal start to the year is a tribute to the great Joe Meek with this two-sided wonder of Meek like madness from The NoMen and The Blue Giant Zeta Puppies; tracks that are filed with wonky guitars echo filled joints of smoked black fountains. Two tracks to make you feel that 2022 is not going to be that bad after all. Roll on the coming 12 months, and one can only hope it will be as magically wonky as this fine single.
bigflower ‘Bang Bang’
(Self-Release) 26th December 2021
bigflower is back with another cover. Yes, a dark and dense version of the 60s Cher classic ‘Bang Bang’. Once again Ivor Perry drenches the melodious with a swamp of becoming darkness that calls out to be used in some enigmatic black and white foreign subtitled film that one loses themselves in occasionally in the early hours of a Sunday Morning; a track that breaks hearts whilst stoking the embers of half remembered love affairs. Ivor’s bigflower is a band with a mission, a mission to cover this world with the magic of his spoken softly whispered beautiful guitar washes: a mission we should all encourage him in and publicize.
The Jazz Butcher ‘Running On Fumes’
(Tapete Records) 4th February 2022
This track my lovely cherubs is the first single taken from the new and posthumous album by the sadly no longer with us Pat Fish aka the Jazz Butcher, a band I loved and listened to a great deal in my indie pop loving late teen years. Yes, I soundtracked many a romantic interlude to the dulcet tones of the Jazz Butcher, their Live in Hamburg album was a particular favourite of mine, and I’m both pleased and saddened to say even after all these years Mr Fish never lost his way of writing a catchy melodious piece of guitar pop loveitude. He will be sadly missed by myself and many others: a great and talented songwriter.
treesreach ‘How it Seems’
4th February 2022
‘How It Seems’ is a lazy hazy piece of American indie rock with a lovely mixture of Sweet Jane guitar strums and an indie Boston like explosion of AOR melodeon tomfoolery: a rather lovely way to spend a few minutes. So I suggest you give it a listen.
The Albums And The EPs..
Colonial Skyway ‘Evening On Earth’
(Submarine Broadcasting Co.) 14th January 2022
The silent hum of a city landscape keeping its dark secret from the prying eyes of the solitude, the indifference of the praying masses awaiting redemption from the cold bloodied imaginations of the dearly departed only a hop skip and a jump away from the black bird soaring high through the now clear skies as the empty factory puffs the ghost of the smoke from god’s great ash tray into the remembrance of the sky. This album is an aural sweep stake of memories yet to happen a delve into the subconscious a brief awakening of the dot in the centre of an old tv screen saying goodnight one last time.
Salem Trials ‘Something PRETTY DRASTIC’
(Metal Postcard Records) 10th January 2022
Oh, the post-punk joy this 4-track EP emits is tangible, it is eatable, you can catch the magic in a net and rub your face in it; it is pure spell binding: the opening track ‘Table Turning’ sends goosebumps down my arm. It’s like it’s a missing track from Orange Juices mini–LP Texas Fever: it’s pop in its purest form.
This four tracker is the sound of The Salem Trials at their most commercial: I can imagine every track at one point coming from the radio stuck on BBC 6 music after 7pm. As readers of the Monolith Cocktail know I am a huge Salem Trials fan and I will tell you why. It’s because I have good taste. And if there is any justice in this world it should take something pretty drastic to stop Something Pretty Drastic haunting your radio.
K. Board & The Skreens ‘Langue EP’
(Metal Postcard Records) 28th December 2021
Metal Postcard Records, the record label of 2021, kick of 2022 with another fine release; a five track EP that has one scrabbling around in early new year frenzy thinking where on earth have I put my Syd Barrett CDs. Yes, a five track EP that covers the Syd like ditties in electronic 8-bit bedroom magic, all funky whirls and drumbeats. 2022 style modern-day dance meets the magical past to explore the inner workings of musical deep thinking. Sci-fi minds, maybe a work of an evil Bond villainy…who knows or cares when the music is this much fun and original sounding.
Chris Church ‘Darling Please’
(Big Stir Records) 21st January 2022
An album that kicks off with the sound of Quasimodo having a wank is not a bad way to start off an album of radio friendly guitar pop; it gives the album an air of darkness which I greatly appreciate. It is much better than being sugar-coated in platitudes of esteemed Mojo lite political correctness by jean wearing bingo hop bunned men who really should know better than to try and listen to his record collection of likeminded backward thinkers whilst his wife is not out scanning the racks of Sainsburys for the butter her mother’s best friend swears by.
Yes indeed, Chris Church has released an album of well written guitar pop rock that lovers of Mathew Sweet and the ilk will love and dream of being spoon-fed by Anthia from the Generation Game all those years ago: how did Brucie catch such a dish of the day we ask, and if we are not asking, we certainly should be…and as Brucie once said give us a twirl and I advise you guitar lovers give this album a twirl as it is not half bad.
Claptrap ‘Adulting’
(Un je-ne-sais-quop) 28th January 2022
Claptrap by name but not by nature. No indeed, what we have here is an enjoyable a free-thinking adventurous album of original pop songs, an album that I expect the great Paddy McAloon might enjoy with its Prefab Sprout like sense of playfulness – especially on the opening track ‘The Rewrite’. And the playfulness continues throughout the album, recalling the days when music could and should be fun; an album that takes electronica, psych and eyebrow twisting like McCartney Ram era pop and invention to quite wonderful heights.
Adulting is an album that proves that here we are in 2022 and pop music can still be as a rewarding an experience as it was 50 years ago when everything was fresh and exciting, all that is needed is a fresh and exciting outlook on your art. Nice one Claptrap.
Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.
Our Daily Bread 429: Chris Church, A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen, The Salem Trials, Fatherfigures…
March 5, 2021
Reviews Galore/Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea
The cult leader of the infamous lo fi gods, The Bordellos, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea has released countless recordings over the decades with his family band of hapless unfortunates, and is the owner of a most self-deprecating sound-off style blog. His most recent releases include the diatribe ‘Boris Johnson Massacre’ and just in the last couple of months the King Of No-Fi album, a collaborative derangement with the Texas miscreant Occult Character, Heart To Heart, and in just the last 24 hours a double-A side single, ‘Shattered Pop Kiss/Sky Writing’. He has also released, under the Idiot Blur Fanboy moniker, a stripped down classic album of resignation and Gallagher brothers’ polemics.
Each week we send a mountain of new releases to the self-depreciating maverick to see what sticks. In his own idiosyncratic style and turn-of-phrase, pontificating
The Singles/Tracks/Videos
Bloom De Wilde ‘Flying Carpenters’
(Dream Society Records) Song released 22nd February 2021/ Video Released 1st March 2021
The word bewitching was invented to describe not just this utterly beautiful song but also the lady herself. This is a song of hope and loss; a song to be embraced by all the outsiders: those who venture their own way through life, who will be called strange, called weird by all those who dress the same and like the same records and the same films because they are told to do so and are so scared of being themselves they do not know who they really are. This is not a call to arms for all the so-called weirdoes out there but a lullaby to sooth them gently to sleep, and when you hear Bloom sing the line, “When the morning rises up above, and I know that I’m alone, just a weirdo”, they know they are not alone. This is song of purity stripped down to the bone; a melancholic heart beating for you as your heart breaks.
New America ‘Hong Kong Free Press’
26th March 2021
I like this. It reminds me of when Paul Weller had spunk running through his veins in his days of the Jam and then it goes all Dinosaur Jnr on us. It has a rather wonderful melody and fine lyrics as well. This is so British sounding without the Rule Britannia bollocks and takes me back to the days of releasing politically motivated singles were not seen as a bad career move: How I miss those days of Costello and Bragg and the Redskins telling us how it is. New America should be congratulated for shooting a bit of oomph and passion into the sadly ever more beige sounding guitar band scene of today.
The Albums/EPs
Various ‘The Sound Of Northern Star’
(Northern Star Records) 1st March 2021
This is the first Northern Star Records compilation since 2014’s Live Revolution, and it’s the second release since the label made its comeback with the excellent Cult Of Free Love‘s Visions album – which actually made the Monolith Cocktail’s Choice end of the year features.
As one would expect from a Northern Star release this 15-track compilation takes you through all things psych tinged; such as the Ride like pop of The Nova Saints ‘Sugar Coated’, which has guitars that chime and a melody that reaches out to the stars, calling out to be played on your radio as you drive through the hills in your open top convertible; a song that gives you hope; perfect guitar pop if you like. And this album is worth getting for that track alone. But no, there are other gems among the 15 tracks, such as ‘Daydreamer’ by the Youngteam, a track that all you shoegazers out there will bop their merry heads off to: if Shoegazers allow themselves such frivolities. Or, the blisteringly harsh psych punk of The Electric Mainline a track so hard, dirty and hot it will both peel the skin from your ears and blister your walls; a song worthy of the genre Psych porn if such a genre existed.
This comp is certainly worth your investigation; and I haven’t even mentioned the feedback drenched Mary Chain like rock of The Lost Rivers or the country-tinged psych of The Carousels with their beautifully melodious ‘My Beating Heart’. There is not actually a bad track among this lot, and you will admit that is quite a rarity with comps on the whole. The Sound of Northern Star is released on the 1st of March and is free to download, and is a must have album to soundtrack your days as you wait for the day when lockdown is lifted, and after it is lifted, an album to give normality a touch of psychedelic bliss. I also may add this will not be available on Spotify so get your downloading boots on and do yourself a favour.
A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen ‘2 PCS Chciken – Live In Staines’
(Jezus Factory) 1st March 2021
I will be honest with you, I can live without guitar freak-outs on the whole; I find them self-indulgent in the extreme, so when this album kicked off I thought here we go again technical proficiency over the lost art of melody, charm and originality, but I admit I was wrong: I actually quite enjoyed it. It does have guitar wig outs and is not the most original thing one will hear this year. I think everybody out there has heard The Fall and Nation Of Ulysses and the Birthday Party and all the rest; being someone who listened to John Peel throughout the 80s I have heard it all before, but if that is what you want to sound like, you may as well do it well and A Clean Kitchen Is A Happy Kitchen do it well indeed. And I know a whole lot of people who will love this album, so if this is your want…want away and enjoy.
The Salem Trials ‘No Waving’/‘File Under Concrete’
(Metal Postcard Records) 16th February 2021
The Salem Trials are a fine band. They could well be the finest guitar band in the world today. They are indeed a band well worth discovering. Last year the Trials released eight albums, so it comes as no surprise that they have decided to release two on the same day. As ever these two wonderful albums capture what is so magically strange about the band/duo: I previously described them as sounding like they are both of having separate breakdowns but in the same room and that still stands. It really is a bewitching experience, they really do not sound like they give a shit what the other is doing; Andy Goz with his fretboard wizardry, part Tom Verlaine part Keith Richards ploughing blink Erdly on, kicking up memories from post punk England and the no wave adventures of pre 80s New York whilst nailing a squirming jogger to a burning cross, and vocalist Russ spouting his sublime off kilter beat poetry like a modern day Don Van Vilet with a mouth full of cough sweets and a migraine.
These two albums have more of a live feel than the previously released eight; they have a great taped rehearsal/demo quality about them like they were recorded whilst waiting to be released from John Peels cellar where they have been surviving on remembered memories of rock n roll past whist waiting for the great man to let them out not realising the saint of alternative radio is no longer with us and is in fact channeling his past show playlists through the lips and hands of the chosen saviours of alt guitar land…so just another two albums of wayward post punk genius then.
Armstrong ‘Beechwood Park (**FREE** demo songs)’
16th February 2021
Armstrong aka Julian Pitt is one of the great undervalued pop singer songwriters of today; anybody who loves Prefab Sprout or Aztec Camera or the Beach Boys really need to get their listening gear onto this undervalued pop prince. And what we have here is a free to download comp of 4-track tape recordings that show off Julian’s talent for writing such beautiful heart tugging melodies. And the warmness of the tracks are added by the beauty and subtle warmness that recording on tape provides.
This eleven-track album is a lo-fi pop delight, from the guitar jangle of ‘The Sweetest Girl’, The Smiths like ‘Im Not Angry’, to the Blur meet Mary Chain sultry pop strut of ‘Slow Down’, to the beautiful ballads ‘Miles Away’ and ‘4Am Thoughts’. Beechwood Park is indeed a must hear album for all the lo-fi lovers out there.
Dare Above Nemo ‘Mimic’ EP
15th February 2021
If upbeat indie synth pop is your thing you could well like this fine three track EP, which at times takes me back flowing to the days of the 80s when music was the lifeblood of the teenager, songs oozed and flowed throughout their days highlighting the ups and downs: not a fucking phone in sight. Yes, this lovely three tracker is a fine release indeed. At times reminding me of Win other times the Human League. What the songs lack in length more than make up for in catchiness and melody. Who wants long pop songs anyway.
Chris Church ‘Game Dirt’
(Big Stir Records) 27th March 2021
The new album by Chris Church is an album of mature guitar-based pop like that of Crowded House before all the success, and Chris does it very well especially on ‘Fall’ which sadly is not an ode to the no longer with us band led by the also no longer with us Mark E Smith, but we will not hold that against it as it is a beautifully written ballad and those of all ages sometimes need to lose themselves in well played hummable odes to the sadness in one’s life. And this album is filled with the melancholy blighters, with ‘Gravity’ and ‘Trying’ also ploughing the same field of love and regret.
But all is not empty bottles of red wine and subdued flickers from the TV screen casting shadows of fallow worship to the great lady of the no longer with us, there are also songs of cartwheeling bar rock goodness that Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds use to deal out with alarming regularity in the late 70s early 80s. With friends Rockpile the opening track ‘Learn’ being a prime example, and the countrified ‘Smile’ being another. Game Dirt is an album of well-produced well-played and well written guitar songs that lovers of such will indeed want to add to their album collection of well-produced well played well written guitar songs.
Futurafter ‘Ep A’
(Shoredive Records) 16th January 2021
If synth drenched dreamy pop music is what you are after well look no further, we have the very thing here supplied to us by those lovely chaps at Shore Dive Records. Yes, three beautiful slices of synth pop tinted shoegaze that the likes of Sarah Records occasionally served up via the Field Mice. These three tracks are interspersed with a communist quote in Russian, Macedonian and Albanian, which you may agree makes a welcome and unusual change, and as the say variety is the spice of life, which I guess they may also say in Russian, Macedonian and Albanian but with a more eastern European accent.
Fatherfigures ‘Any Time Now…And High Time To’
(Self-Release) 21st February 2021
I like this album, it takes me back to my alt 80s days, it has that certain intense life is shit let’s do something about it feel that at times reminds me of the wonderful JD Meatyard in his Levellers 5 days. It has the dense dark atmosphere of Joy Division and early Sister Of Mercy but without being Goth, just hinting at it, just at times having the same frivolities the same guitar peddles but also at the same time reminding me of the wonderful arch obscure angular guitar shenanigans of Cud/Wedding Present, even Carter. And the album screams, “Lets commit peaceful agro”. I can imagine being very entrained by these back in the day and probably now as well.
The Fatherfigures are a band that will certainly appeal to those once fond of going to their local venue bathing in the aura of stale piss and spilt beer. The good old days when we thought bands could change the world and to a certain extent, they did change many people’s world: mine included.
Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.
Our Daily Bread 375: Geese, Pabst, So Beats, Yakima…
April 14, 2020
REVIEWS/Brian ‘Shea’ Bordello
Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea joined the Monolith Cocktail team in January 2019. The cult leader of the infamous lo fi gods, The Bordellos, has released countless recordings over the decades with his family band of hapless unfortunates, and is the owner of a most self-deprecating sound-off style blog. His most releases include The Bordellos beautifully despondent pains-of-the-heart and mockery of clique “hipsters” ode to Liverpool, and, under the guises of the Idiot Blur Fanboy moniker, a stripped down classic of resignation and Gallagher brothers’ polemics.
Each week we send a mountain of new releases to the self-depreciating maverick to see what sticks. In his own idiosyncratic style and turn-of-phrase, pontificating aloud and reviewing with scrutiny an eclectic deluge of releases, here Brian’s latest batch of recommendations.
With all live gigs and events more or less quashed for the foreseeable future, buying music (whether it’s physical or through digital platforms such as Bandcamp) has never been more important for the survival of the bands/artists/collectives that create it. We urge you all to keeping supporting; to keep listening.
Chris Church ‘Backwards Compatible’
Album/Now
Power pop is an art form that not many critics takes seriously; quite often frowned upon and belittled. Why is it such a bad thing for songs to have catchy melodies and harmonies and a feel good factor. Is it wrong to be influenced by McCartney led Beatles and Big Star; to love the crunchy guitars of Cheap Trick; to have melodies so sharp that they could shave off your eyebrows if you got too close. Of course not all critics are arseholes who eat what they are fed, who will accept anything as long as it’s wrapped in the latest hip design [me using the phrase hip design proves I’m no critic and certainly not a fashion led one]. I’m a music lover. I love pop music. I love harmonies. I love songs with a feel good factor, and yes McCartney is my favourite Beatle.
If you are like myself a pop music lover this LP is certainly for you as it has all the above mentioned and more. If you love Matthew Sweet and Brendan Benson, or even quite like them, you really need to hear this LP. If you’ve never heard of either I would advise you do, but first give this fine album a blast. I’m pretty sure it will not get the attention or the radio play it deserves and that is a bit of a sin as this album was born to be played on the radio.
Yakima ‘Go Virtually’
EP/20th March 2020
Scottish bands like Big Star and Bad Finger it seems. That’s what we have here: another band soaking up the melodies of the past and releasing them forth to hopefully inspire more bands to like Big Star, which in itself is a worthy cause, because you cannot really have too many bands releasing warm catchy pop music, and this EP’s six tracks of warm catchy guitar pop is just that. It’s like the aural equivalent of your cat nesting in your favorite old jumper, in a cardboard box; no matter how many times you see it, it still makes you smile and warm inside.
So Beast ‘Super Black’
EP/27th April 2020
If I remember correctly (Editor: yes you did) I reviewed an EP (Fit Unformal) by So Beast last year and was very impressed. Well nothing has changed, as this is equally as impressive.
Once again bringing a dark sultry post punk sound that reminds me of a semi electro Bow Wow Wow; chanted, whispered talked vocals backed by backward drum machines, the bleeps and chimes of the electronic kind twanging guitars and a warm dark hush of their art causing expectant ripples in the part of your mind where you fold away stars and memories of unkempt kisses and elicit sexual acts you performed, or, wished you had. An EP of sultry dark wonders.
Geese ‘Bottle’
Single/Available Now
Geese are a band or a group [as I’m old fashioned] or, a flock even, from New York and this is their second single to date [I think it is anyway; I could be wrong, and not for the first time]. And what we have here is a fine slice of indie rock; chiming, almost a prog like guitar matched with dark melodic harmonies that bathe in the nostalgia that has me spinning back to the days when people with guitars mattered. Well worth lending your ears to.
Tangled Headphones ‘Death By Misadventure’
Single/1st April 2020
I really love this. Tangled Headphones describe themselves as anti pop, which I have to disagree with, as this is a fine pop single. It’s certainly lo-fi, which you should know by now is something I adore. It also has a great psych eastern feeling to it – again something I love. Imagine if you will, a Psych Beat Happening; maybe one of my personal favorite tracks of the year so far. Great stuff indeed.
Aimée Steven ‘Hell Is A Teenage Girl’
(Jacaranda Records) Single/6th March 2020
I think I may just stop reading press releases because on the whole they make me not want to actually listen to the song, as it nearly did with this delight of a pop single by Aimée Steven. And I’m glad I overlooked the bad hype “ripping up rule books ” and such nonsense, because what we have here is a fine PJ Harvey like song injected with the pop fun of The Monkees: guitars that jangle and fizz and a melody that would easily pass the old grey whistle test. One to watch yet again.
Pabst ‘Skyline’
(Ketchup Tracks / The Orchard) Single/Now
I was, once again, not expecting to like this as I always look on the bright side, as you know. But I actually did! I like the post grunge with a touch of old fashioned Glam rock feel to it: imagine Suede with beards and holes in their jeans. It’s once again a well written song with decent lyrics a fine melody and with a head-banging inducing chorus, which those with youth on their side I would advise, as it is good exercise [I am led to believe].
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