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jackhammer · 04-07-2008, 03:47 PM

I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it.

This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same.

There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past.

04-07-2008, 03:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	I have heard a couple of tracks from previous releases and I was indifferent to them but I needed to get this album for someone, so I thought I would listen to it. This album completely bewilders me. Opener Starlings is atmospheric, broody and replete with a hypnotic keyboard/ brass rhythmn. Next comes The Bones Of You and my expectation levels drop. This could easily be Coldplay, Embrace or any other average guitar pop band peddling MOR indifference. Then comes along Grounds For Divorce and while not exactly original it's faux blues melody is instantly likeable and The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver is a band that seems so desperately trying to climb out of the banal musical landscape where all emotional British guitar music sounds the same. There are some great musical parts on here but the band seem desperately stuck in the past. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”