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I'd guess you'd have to think a lot of yourself
to stick a Radiohead cover on your EP – and
you'd also want to have done it really well to justify
it – and you'd probably want a really strong
EP along with it to back it up, right?
The New Loud have none of these, except the Radiohead
cover. And it makes me physically sick. “2
+ 2 = 5” has never sounded so dreadful.
It sounds like a group of kids with no knowledge
of different time signatures and keys have tried
giving it a go, and this was their first attempt.
My main gripe is that the line “two and
two always makes a five” seems to jump around
forty different keys and the note it ends on has
no other relevance to the rest of the song. The
song's already a bit weird to start with, being
Radiohead and all, but you've just pushed it over
the line. Although it improves when it kicks in,
the disgusting synthesiser sounds throughout destroy
any hope there was that they might have pulled
it off. A couple of promising moments, but, please
don't try this again.
The New Loud have an odd twinkly electro sound
– and although there's clearly a proper
band hidden underneath, it's well hidden, beneath
electronic blips and beeps, and some annoyingly
mundane vocals, one male and one female. The third
track “Heaven” isn't quite as bad
as the Radiohead cover, and nowhere near as awful
as the first track which I've chosen to ignore
completely.
How this is “Alternative and Punk”
(yeah thanks iTunes,) I've no idea, but the noises
they make really grate. If you stripped this away
and gave the songs to a half decent rock band,
you might even be onto a winner. But right now,
like this, I feel a bit queasy.
2/5
Review by Thom |
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Shane (Guitar, Vocals)
Jessi (Keyboard, Vocals)
Radish Beet (Drums, Vocals) |
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1. Don't Dance
2. 2 + 2 = 5
3. Heaven
4. The Short Way To Get You
5. Every Girl I See (demo)
6. Heaven (extended Mix) |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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