Demanding eclecticism from our music is laudable enough on paper, but it can sometimes lead to the most bizarre attempts to outlast the more conservative pack in some quarters.
Take swelling nine-piece modern showband DO ME BAD THINGS, for example. In their willingness to experiment and cover all bases, they ensured their debut album "Yes!" could cope with such a dazzling array of styles (often during the same song) that they often came across sounding like - admittedly talented - Jacks of all trades rather than a dynamite outfit in their own right.
Taken in isolation, though, their blasts of frighteningly proficient Glam-metal-soul-yodelling (delete as applicable) crossover pop works surpisingly well and doesn't require several hours lying perfectly still in a dark room to come around. Indeed, the daffy, but cool "Move In Stereo (Liv Ullman On Drums)" is almost as good as "Time For Deliverance", and thanks to a thrusting performance from the band and Nicolai Prowse's throaty vocals, this catchy, cruise control effort could well do the biz in the fearful 40.
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So there you have it. Schizophrenic over the distance, but thrillingly electic in small doses, Do Me Bad Things are determined to crack this stardom malarkey one way or another. And there are worse ways of doing it than becoming a great singles band.
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