Wednesday, December 22, 2010

#260 Fresh and Onlys - Play it Strange

Missed off the pitchlist.

This is vaguely surfey rock and roll, with lots of rolling drums and slithery up-and-down basslines, which I'm into. There's a good gallop to a lot of these songs, sounding a bit Smiths, a bit like a mellower version of The Exploding Hearts, in terms of their particular retro angle. That said, and maybe my hearing is going, because I keep saying this, but there's something muddled about the production, the vocals a bit swamped in the mix, the drums kind of running together. I don't know that I'll listen to this a lot more, but on the strength of those basslines its at least good for 3/5

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