The Sunday Experience Review Listen Up!
The Lovely Mark from Losing Today posted this fine review on his Myspace blog – click the poster to see the original!
Merchandise ‘listen up!’ (cityscape).
Apparently there’s a full length looming on the horizon from these chaps entitled ‘for the masses’ which we must admit is proving to be something of a breath held anticipated thing over in our gaff, sadly there’s no announced street date as yet, however to placate ’the masses’ there’s this nifty little twin set to tuck into and keep the home fires burning.
’Listen up!’ according to the press release attaching to this CD / vinyl set (pressed on white wax and replete with a badge I should add – how these lads love to treat us) is a ’tale of heartbreak and emotional torment told against a sparkling musical backdrop’ – couldn’t have put it better myself though as is our want we will add to that that this babe is braided by a hugely lolloping and deviously off set hook that’ll flatten you without so much as a by your leave, blending the summer glazed dimpled effervescence of Dodgy’s holiday time honey ’staying out for the summer’ with the less obvious tangy overtones of a post ’wake up’ Boo Radleys, drizzled with subtle west coast accents and a head turning sucker punching infectiousness ’listen up!’ fizzles with a quietly disturbing lo-fi feel good mellowness and an un-assumed pop prowess that once slyly shimmying past your defences will set up home in your psyche and ping around nonchalantly until summer fades.
That said we are quite more than smitten by the flip cut ’lonesome beauty’ as it affectionately tumbles and teeters carrying in its wake memories of those classic era Kitchenware releases from the early 80’s, and though we here are all firmly at the mercy of winter’s icy grip this babe almost feels like a metrological calling card ushering in the oncoming spring season.
