NEWTON FAULKNER has credentials coming out of his backside, like the rays of sunshine from a guy who can do no wrong. He’s a guitarist’s guitarist – taught by Eric Roche (grand-daddy of guitarist’s guitarists), marvelled at by Jimmy Page, and supported by the MOR rockers at BBC Radio 2. Coolio.
Thing is, unless you’re a fret-board genius, you’re not going to be able to appreciate the River-Dance-digit acrobatics taking place on the guitar – it either sounds nice or it doesn’t. And this single, ‘Full Fat’ although it sounds nice enough, it is definitely the sort of music that would fit very nicely being piped through a trendy hotel reception. That is, ‘Full Fat’ is inoffensive but boring, erring on the Muzak side of the pop genre. And no amount of technical wizardry is going to change that.
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It would have been more interesting had ‘Full Fat’ been about a Feeder who kept a woman locked in a basement on a diet of pure pie. But unfortunately its about being skint and wishing you had more money. Oh yeah, that old chestnut. Yawn.
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