In this week's Spin It or Bin It we've got the new releases from Goldspot, Interpol, Travis and Siouxie. Don't forget to leave your views...
Goldspot ‘Friday’ Fontana 3/5
Reviewed by Grace Tiede
Sweet little song, played and sung beautifully, I fully expect this
to be a hit for Goldspot. Friday is easy on the ear, and lifts the
spirits, which is really all that a lot of people want in their
music. Lovely. Well above average for this sort of music.
Interpol ‘Our Love To Admire’ Capitol 3/5
Reviewed by Rikki Wright
Ultra moody twangy electric guitar, ‘Pioneer To The Falls’ opens this
album with a song that cuts to the bone. The darkly rich vocal
matches the feeling, and suddenly you feel yourself to be inside a
heartrending scene from a film, where two desolate people are walking
away from each other parting forever, across an old bridge, in
slicing rain…The rest of ‘Our Love To Admire’ has an equally
emotional feel, intensely beautiful lyrics and driving minor chords,
powering the music on. I’ve been a bit put off Interpol by all the
ridiculous hype that surrounds them, and the cover image is
disgusting and offensive – they lost a full point in my rating for
that, but ignore all that, and this isn’t bad at all.
BIN IT
Travis - Selfish Jean
It’s more of the same from the Glaswegian whingers. It’s not that they’re offensive in any way (actually that’s the problem), but it’s hard to forgive anyone who appears to have spawned a genre of cynical, pseudo-indie rubbish music manufactured to give people who don’t like music something to sing along to. We thought they’d handed the baton over to Keane and the Feeling, but now they’re back, and just as bland as ever.
1/5
Siouxsie - ‘Mantaray’ (review copy) W14 Music 1/5
Reviewed by Mouse
I was looking forward to hearing this, and was quite enjoying it,
until the track suddenly faded away after a minute. It happened again
with the next and the next. The review copy had just a minute and
three seconds of each song, which frankly gave me no real idea of
what Siouxsie is up to at the moment. There might have been some good
bits in it, but nothing had time to build or develop on this taster
version, so I’m stuck with the overall impression of a right old
rackety hotchpotch of tracks chopping and changing before I could get
into them, and no real idea if they were good bad or indifferent. How
can I recommend that people go out and spend good money on something
if I haven’t even heard it? The answer is, I can’t.