I'm catching up, here's There Goes Concorde Again:
Hey you! What a lovely opener, the feel good vibe, the sweet childish chorus, the saxophone during the verses, the terrible female vocalist, works just fine as introduction, as it gives you a slight (really slight) hint of the strangeness of the forthcoming tracks, but what happens from here tends to be hard to describe, I’ll make a try anyway. Most of the tracks are collages of ideas and sounds and don’t follow conventional structures. Haunting samples, noisy keyboards and synths and atonal passages take turns to accompany the vocalist meaningless gibberish, which adds up a great deal to the overall weirdness of the album.
The thing with this album is that half of tracks fail to evolve from only weird to frightening, interesting or rewarding, and not many of them had me at the edge of my seat. Take the streak of tracks from Tenderly Hurt Me to Middle of the Road, each of these tracks are so uninteresting, so stale, so boring, they fail to grab me on any way. They are only, weird. Then the title track comes and things get a little better. And then Punk Kissing, nice bass/keyboard/whatever line, everything is normal, BAM, it’s guitar time! The last two tracks close the album with no mayor surprises. It’s definitely unique, but it’s not something I’d die to re-experience anytime soon.
5/10
Valravn coming up.