This is not a groundbreaking album in any way but it is a bloody good one nevertheless. The artwork is great, the album consists of thirteen (brilliantly titled) songs, and only one of them stretches out beyond the three minute mark. Oh yeah, and it sounds like The Jesus and Mary Chain only with more melody.
3AM Coke Dream is suitably inspired. Bleed starts out like Swervedriver and then carries on a bit like them, replacing duelling guitars with Madonna like melodies. It rocks. Peel Slowly does so even more and I bounce quickly. A Way Away sounds like Mary Chain. Tastes Like Medicine is more of the same. Deeper + Deeper has female vocals on top of chugging bass and incessant guitar.
Elsewhere, Ex-Friends is the Shangri-Las in the toilet with a four track. Now We Shatter has a guitar hook Noel Gallagher would be proud of. Colour Of Bones doffs its cap to Ultra Vivid Scene. Circles has sort of a mellow Pixies vibe to it and Spider Baby is a stop start sixties garage band meets Ride affair. Superimposed follows on in a similar vein. Fake Tan bookends nicely with 3AM Coke Dream and the guitars remind me of Teenage Fanclub.
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This may well be lo-fi scuzz pop but I think whoever made this album knows what they are doing and I also think that there is a lot of love and attention to detail that has gone into it. This album is a head sized bubble of gum about to burst in your face and on the inside is a bucket of black goo.
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