Your Code Name Is: Milo – Ignoto
After, a mini album and a few excellent singles, we finally get the debut Milo album. “Ignoto” (which is Italian for ‘nothing’) was produced by the legendary Flood. Milo themselves have been compared to everyone from Radiohead, Fugazi and Joy Divison, because like the bands they’ve been compared to, Milo make a brand of rock that is different and challenging.
“I Am Connecting Flight” is a fast, distorted and beautiful song all wound up in to one. “17″ is the next track and each time I hear it, I love it more and more. “Rapt Dept” this is one that sounds like your being under attack. Great vocal here and that riff is so engulfing. “Scheetve” has such a great bounce to it. The vocals are so epic and they just soar forever. “Team Radar” is their slow burning prog rock song. “Five Four” is at times very chaotic but somehow manages to stay together. It’s a wild ride that you will never want to end. Tracks like “Yesterdays Head” and “The General” at times just down right rock but there is also plenty to keep your brain in motion.
It’s really hard to do an album like this justice. Milo don’t really sound like anything that’s out there at the moment. They bring their own style and their own imprint on everything. What you need to do is get this record. Don’t overlook it and miss
By John Siwicki
The Ordinary Boys – Boys Will Be Boys
The Ordinary Boys first LP was enjoyable overall. It had a few bad moments but what doesn’t. “Boys Will Be Boys” makes a bit of a change of direction for the guys. They move more into a ska direction. The lyrically the song is rather crummy. There is also a bit of rap about two minutes in, it actually helps break up the repetitive nature of the song. The song isn’t bad it just doesn’t really do much, but hey the horns are delightful.
By John Siwicki
The Fever – In The City Of Sleep
“In The City Of Sleep” is quite the departure from 2003′s debut “Red Bedroom. The album was recorded with by producer/engineer Steve Rivette (Beastie Boys, Dr. John, Black Dice). The album is a sixteen track epic that takes the listen on quite a dark, psychedelic cabaret, and much more it’s quite a wild ride of an album.
“Redhead” starts off the album; it has a bit of a surfer rock feel. Its got some really cheesy keyboard, it has that riff and a swagger to it, you can picture people surfing to this. “Waiting for the Centipede” is something you might hear on a Tom Waits album. It’s wild and has a circus like quality to it. “Magnus” sounds like something that could have been pulled out of the 40s. “Little Lamb & The Shiny Silver Bullets” is like the Beatles meets some evil lullaby. “Eyes On The Road” easily hands down the best song on the album. It uses a very creepy sounding guy, in a spoken word situation. Musically, it’s a very erratic and jerky song, making for quite a chaotic experience, and the end is just magnificent.
The album is loaded with crazy instruments (organ, xylophone, marimba and surely more) it really does take a listener on a pure journey. The band is clearly being heavily influenced by the late 60s Beatles work, post punk, and some punk funk. “In The City Of Sleep” ups the ante for the bands and really helps them break away and make.
By John Siwicki
Roots Manuva – Awfully Deep
Roots last LP “Run Come Save Me” in 2001 earned him a Mercury Music prize nomination, and widespread acclaim. But of course a lot has changed since then. Roots is back with a deep and thought provoking LP. He knows that the game has changed