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"Human Error" opens the Datsuns new album
in style. Thrown in at the deep end of the hart-hitting
limb-flailing rock pool, your only real hope of
a life ring is your own passion to go a bit mental
and rock out. Luckily, I have this thirst and oh,
but oh have this New Zealand quartet quenched it.
Chosen as the second release off of Headstunts,
it really is a fantastic track that is intense brilliance
start to finish.
Although the intensity drops partially for the
next track "Hey! Paranoid People," it's
still fucking awesome, I won't lie.
The Datsuns were a band who came to the world's
attention on a big scale while I was at school,
with their debut self-titled album reaching #1
back home in NZ, and was around the same time
as the Vines' rise to fame. However, whereas the
Vines seem to have slowly lost the plot over the
years, the Datsuns prove here with this new album
that they're still on the ball, and I can only
pray that these new singles can make it higher
than #25, which they reached around 2002 with
"In Love."
Throughout the album there are many different
tones, and links to other bands in terms of sound
and style. Saying that, I can't quite put my finger
on who. "Ready, Set, Go!" has a sound
that resembles Levellers' latest material, and
other tracks draw feelings from Wolfmother and
The Vines, both of which originate from near-by
Australia.
Jaw-dropping riffs bleed through the album, wreaking
of simplicity and the feeling of "why hasn't
somebody written this before?"
Yes, the Datsuns have floated my boat. Stand-out
tracks, besides the opening two, are their first
single "Highschool Hoodlums," and the
more relaxed "Eye Of The Needle" which
eventually turns into hart-hitter. The album finishes
on an epic eight-minute "Somebody Better"
which is more nostalgic; not of the Datsuns' story,
but of the history of rock itself. It's the kind
of song your Dad might have on vinyl, with long
twiddling guitar solos and the like.
5/5
Review by Thom
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Dolf de Borst
Phil Buscke
Ben Cole
Christian Livingstone |
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1. Human Error
2. Hey! Paranoid People! (What's In Your Head)
3. Your Bones
4. Ready, Set, Go!
5. Yeah, Yeah, Just Another Mistake'
6. Eye Of The Needle
7. So Long
8. Cruel Cruel Fate
9. Highschool Hoodlums
10. Cruel Cruel Fate
11. Cry Crybaby
12. Somebody Better |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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