What’s The Skinny On Planet Sound?
The Lost Belongings EP has been picking up some good reviews. WhatsOn gives it four stars:
“… this is sincere. This is real. Call it lo-fi-folk-punk-indie-dub-rockabilly or whatever it must be categorised as, the point is that it’s honest AND accessible, two words that very rarely get combined when discussing modern music.”
Teletext’s Planet Sound section follows suit, awarding eight out of ten:
“… a Too Rye Ay-era Dexys racket, full of brassy insouciance and a rickety piano like the best drunken night out. Huge skill behind the ramshackle charm.”
For the sake of balance, here’s a less than enthusiastic two-star review of the EP from The Skinny:
“Their coupling of London estuary indie with violins and mandolins is an obvious ploy to attain an air of authenticity, but Crook’s voice is too one-dimensional, too limited to deliver any tenderness when it’s called for.”
That’s fine, not everyone’s going to like it. A factual correction to that one: the band left its former record label – a local indie rather than a major – by choice.
http://www.artrocker.com/node/13567
Thanks Danno. I didn’t include that one because it’s essentially a copy and paste of the press release for the EP – i.e. not a “review” because we actually wrote it in the first place.
However, very good to see it appearing on both Artrocker and The Devil Has The Best Tuna. You can judge for yourself whether it’s “strewn with hyperbole and outsider oratory” like The Skinny suggests.
Both live and on 16 grams of polycarbonate within the next few hours none-the-less.
Will you be present for tonights proceedings HG? If so, I will buy you a beverage for your patience with my inane waffling during our last encounter!
I’m walking out the door, bound for the midway train, in less than five mins. See you there.