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Filling The Junction's small musical cubby-hole this Friday were Operahouse, a band currently doing pretty well, touring all over the gaff, and with a new single out tomorrow…
The boys tried to get the crowd going with a number of bouncy, poppy tunes- sometimes surprisingly innovative musically, though lyrically pretty pointless (the occasional pop culture references grabbing your attention, maybe, but seemingly with no real significance other than to do that).
The best songs of the night were the slower ones, or at least the slower bits of their songs; the poppy upbeat numbers weren't bad in anyway - often sounding Coral-ish with a less Lun-dun-ey Jamie T singing over the top, sometimes even a bit (but not quite) like Modest Mouse (of whom I'm a huge fan) - but overall didn't do enough to warrant a spot in indie-pop heaven.
The more downbeat songs (or song sections), however, evidenced the talent of the band for melodies and soft cadent guitar playing from the guitarist. One exception to the slow- good, fast- bad categorisation was Plastic Cage; a really catchy, innovative tune with a fast-talky style verse, cool guitar driven chorus and critically an amazing whao-oh, whao-oh bit towards the end (yeah, this probably sounds like 'nuffin special' but you gotta hear this one…), also some awesome tempo/ direction changes throughout.
Anyway after being all set to be mollified into a state of 'it ain't good, it ain't bad, so who cares' for whatever overly indie-weary) reasons , I actually ended up becoming a bit of a fan of about half of this bands songs. So any good then? Well I'll be checking out their new single, I reckon.
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