On reading the gushing reviews that have recently poured fourth from the mainstream press about THE MADELEINES’s previous releases, it would seem that these Welsh rockers are bringing a much-needed wind of change into a fairly stagnant music scene. That being mainstream indie-pop. Some examples for you:
"Frantic debut seven-inch finds them sounding like Editors quaffing back
caffeine bombs after an endless night putting the world to rights" - NME Stereo
"If there is any sort of justice in life, the Madeleines will be big, very big indeed... To hear the Madeleines is to know what bliss sounds like." - www.looserecord.com
What a shame then, to hear their new double-A side single “Alias/Pilot Light”, which although is pleasant enough to listen to, is exactly the same as everything else being touted at the moment. And it's doubtful that these Bloc-Party wannabes would propel the listener into a blissed-out state after just one listen.
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Of course this isn’t their fault, and obviously their music should be judged by it’s own merits – they write nice, unchallenging three-minute wonders, and they sound very much like the Editors and Bloc Party. But in a wider context they are just another four-piece guitar boy band, and are symptomatic of a music scene that has become saturated with a commercially viable, but rather tired type of noise.
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