Review:
'MADELEINES, THE'
'TROUBLE / SAFETY NET'
- Label: 'Destructible'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: 'April 2006'
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London four piece band THE MADELIENES have a debut single here that sounds bright, lively and full of this year's brash reassertion of 80s pop values. Short sharp stabs of clear guitar, voltage-surge percussion and a soulful half-crying in the vocals all work pretty well. Mat Jacobsen and James Stephens have a track each to sing and the change is nice touch. Each song has the same basic dancing idea, but the shift from understatement to slightly manic soaring is a good touch. It’s a bit like going from Robert Smith to Howlin' Pelle Almqvist. A little bit.
The crisp neatness of the whole thing is maybe not what the fickle would-be audience for this very immediate kind of music would want. In the mad scramble for attention perhaps a little more reckless abandon is called for. It might work best as a lost classic when the high production values and accurate pop-archaeology can be savoured.
www.themadeleines.com
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author: Sam Saunders
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