- Music
- 17 Apr 08
We Leave at Dawn
Indie nice boys deliver polite but underwhelming debut
They won some sort of television talent competition and they’re not terrible. Sigh. Sometimes it gets wearing being so judgemental all the time. I mean these are nice young fellas with a tendency to write somewhat derivative but well structured indie guitar pop that reminds me a bit of Gene, and James and other bands with male first names for band names. I opened up a newspaper the other day and some guy had garrotted a dog. I suppose they’re not that guy. They haven’t slaughtered any pets as far as I can tell. Indeed they’re probably very nice, literate chaps who I would delight in having a nice postprandial brandy with. So don’t make me judge them. Don’t make me say it. Alright. They’re not great. Are you happy? They’re not great. But crucially for mankind they’re not terrible.
Key Track: ‘Almost Certainly Elsewhere’
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