The Ordinary Boys – I Luv U
This is the second song I have reviewed today with “Love You” in the title. But, The Ordinary Boys decided to be funny and spell Luv like that. “I Love You” (I will not spell it there way) is the best song they band has written in a good two and half years. It’s the bands attempt at a sappy ballad, and we all know I am a sucker for these. It is soppy and whimsical and the strings cover up Preston’s vocal nicely. I can just see the band outside a girls window serenading here for the video.
By John Siwicki
Kasabian – Me Plus One
Kasabian finally release the best track off “Empire.” “Me Plus One” follows the laughable “Shoot The Runner.” The tune is not like your usual Kasabian affair. It is relatively short slice of sunshine pop. It is about ecstasy, “Here you come to take me away/Like a little white rabbit from yesterday.” It is a little like the more musically moments of Primal Scream and its one of the best Kasabian songs.
By John Siwicki
The Good The Bad and The Queen – S/T
The Good, The Bad, and The Queen were huge before they even begun. It’s probably the most important, and what some people may find the most exciting music collaboration in years. They have quite a reputation to live up to, just the names of Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, Simon Tong, and Tony Allen, but the release of their self titled debut album has only cemented this belief that they would be a supergroup.
The album has very much a continued feel of Albarn’s post-Coxon
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Scribble Mural Comic Journal
A Sunny Day in Glasgow is Ben Daniels’ musical project, and one for which he got his two sisters, Robin and Lauren, to sing. Notenuf has kindly release their debut album to us. “Scribble Mural Comic Journal” is just a flat out masterpiece that needs to heard with headphones on. It is a large ambitious piece of work and you will want to her every nook and cranny inside the record. Ben Daniels and his sisters have a gift at crafting one hell of a story.
The album really gets working with “No.6 Von Karman Street.” The song features the Daniels sisters’ vocals swelling and circling this odd dance like beat. The song gives off the aura of fogginess, and confusion. It leads perfectly into “A Mundane Phonecall To Jack Parsons.” The tune is mind-blowing. The sisters’ get to emerge a bit from the noise with a 60s-type harpsichord behind them. “5:15 Train” is very intense and aggressive musically but has such a gentle backbone. “Lists, Plans” is one of the finest pieces on this record. The song waves in and out of these little brief scenes if you would and then you get hit with this strange and addicting note. For a five minute track, there are so many changes and just so much going on. “Watery