James Arden checks out the garage rockers latest album.
The Christian rock band from Brighton bring religion to the masses.
Recipe for modern R'n'B album: liberal helpings of guest rappers and an overdose of sexual euphemisms.
To judge whether a band like Panic! at the Disco wants to be serious can prove a difficult task. A band that was discovered on myspace.com and never played a live show until the got signed has a lot to prove. The latest track takes the form of a slow tempo, string supported emotive song which intrigue the you to keep listening. You want a pop chorus filled with hitches and hooks to chime in, but it does not happen and strangely enough your really glad at the end.
Had Vincent Van Gogh the misfortune to hear David Ford’s ‘I’m Alright Now’ he would certainly have cut off both ears and then burned them. This turgid, proselytising, drippy redemption-athon of a ballad, with clichéd anti drug themes and heavy nodding and winking to The Lord Our Saviour would probably have been bad enough to send Mother Magdalen on a crack binge, just on principle. Indulgent strings, normally a pet hate, almost helped to dilute the all-pervasive agony which I experienced while listening to this guy’s bleating. Had I been synesthesic, my eyes may have bled. This song’s not alright.
Ben Pahari
To say that the single ‘Ghosts’ sounds like a slightly faster, less poppy version of that classic the ‘JCB Song’ may seem like I’m intending to belittle Laura Marling’s work, but I actually mean to praise it by this comparison. Although I was, admittedly, slightly overwhelmed by the wealth of information at the start of the song, delivered somewhat in a rush over a gentle guitar riff, the gradual inclusion of piano, violin, xylophone and percussion soon makes Marling’s single shoot miles ahead of Nizlopi’s in both maturity and quality, leaving any initial doubts behind. The matter-of-fact take the teenager adopts on the ups and downs of heartbreak, presented almost ironically in the form of a sentimental ballad, meant that by the end of the song all I wanted to do was listen to it again.
Laura Archer
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