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When I received this album I cracked up laughing
as the album artwork is so funny, it features a
water painted picture of some boxing type guy, let’s
say Mohammed Ali for argument sake but instead of
his face there is a pink rabbits face, if you then
flip the case over and look at the back you see
a picture of the band against the same background
as this rabbit boxing thing was on the front cover
and it all looks a little bit cheesy and tacky especially
for artwork of an album of these times, if we were
living in the 70’s then yeah it would be expected.
After seeing the artwork I’m sure you can
tell that I wasn’t really looking forward
to listening to the album, well I braced myself
and put the album on and I have to say that I
haven’t heard so much shit in my entire
life, seriously I can’t work out if these
people are serious or not.
The album starts with ‘All We’ve
Got Is Now’ which starts off with twangy
sounding bass and guitar lines and very off putting
vocals from front lady Keran Gaiser, now throughout
the majority of the song everything sounds very
basic and like the kind of band you would hear
playing live in your local 150 person maximum
old person pub venue where you get the village
idiot being the only person up busting their groove
on the dance floor, suddenly right near the end
of the track when you think things can’t
get much worse and then another member of the
band opens his mouth to punish my ears with the
most irritating set of vocals I have ever heard,
and this is the main moment where I question if
this band are for real or not.
The thing with The Passive Aggressives, the majority
of their music simply is shit, but then they knock
out a few surprise good songs such as ‘Soundtrack
To The Voices In My Head’ during this song
Keran’s vocals actually really shine as
she sings along in such a clean melodic way, the
basslines are once again killer, serious Damian
Lynch is a master of groovy basslines and is wasting
away in this band, the only thing that lets this
song down is that they go unpredictable and each
band member come sin singing in a real depressing
way.
Now if you like your music to be unpredictable,
sound like it came out of the 70’s progressive
rock era then you might want to give The Passive
Aggressives a listen, I surly know it will be
a listen that you won’t forget in a hurry
but I can’t guarantee that it will be a
listen that you enjoy.
Bands like The Passive Aggressives and releases
like ‘Conflict Resolution’ is living
proof that it’s easy to get a record deal
these days and it’s even easier to get your
music released so there is a lot of fishing around
to be done to find the good bands, sadly for The
Passive Aggressives they are far from being good.
1/5
Review by Trigger |
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Members |
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Keren Gaiser (Vocasl)
Christian Thompson (Guitar)
Andrew Smith (Guitar)
Damian Lynch (Bass)
Tim Dayner (Drums) |
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1. All We've Got Is Now
2. Soundtrack To The Voices
In My Head
3. Violeta
4. Conflict Resolution
5. Happy
Together
6. World of Compromise
7. Slice It Away
8. Just
Believe
9. Don't Want To Be You
10. One More Look
11.
Lulla-Bye Nation
12. Perfect
13. Not Perfect
14. Evil
Cloud Song
15. Let's Begin |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
-
What Was That? |
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