Bands that look a bit like Peter Serafinowicz: the first in a probably very occasional series…
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Ian Mathers: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (pause for breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I like the one about the social worker better.
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Martin Skidmore: I quite like the beats at the bottom, which rumble along with some impetus. Unfortunately on top of that we have a band set up like trad indie rock but trying to do a Coldplayish song, lacking the slickness and sacrificing the energy the drummer wants to generate. Pretty horrible.
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Jer Fairall: An epic Britpop mope that might have been rousing with a vocalist who could match the song’s panoramic sweep with the requisite intensity, a quality this guy mistakes as whining nearly every syllable. Like a movie with gorgeous cinematography, passable writing and ridiculously hammy acting, basically.
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Rebecca Toennessen: The vocals seem to hang limply over the music like a sad hipster boy ironically draping his tennis sweater over his shoulders with the cuffs folded together.
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Chuck Eddy: Lowest-common-denominator synthesis of some of the less interesting phases U2’s and perhaps Coldplay’s and/or Radiohead’s careers — still have no clue what’s supposed to be good about these guys. They do get a smidgen of feeling out the guitar jangle though, early on, at least three minutes before the track finally ends. Back in 2008, I wrote that it was “very hard of me to conceive of music more average” than their song “Geraldine,” and they don’t sound like they’ve advanced an inch since.
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Iain Mew: Could only be made worse if it actually did break into “I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier!” as it constantly threatens to.
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