Another day, another Scottish band. Religiously following the formula, there are even four of them - Paul Petrie (vocals), Gordon Speedie (guitars), Garry Graham (bass) and Graeme MacDonald (drums – and they are clearly aiming themselves at the less than empty wastes of indie rock land with their album “Indecency of the Few”.
You can’t really fault their earnest approach to achieving success. Paul Petrie emotes like a man on a mission throughout but even his efforts can’t really distract your ears from the familiarity of it all. In there are all the right influences from Portishead to Placebo and all stops in-between but little sign of any desire to actually stand out from the crowd by being different. “Indecency of the Few” isn’t a bad album but it is pretty much what you would expect of a Scottish indie rock band of these times with memorable songs like “Harlequin” being, unfortunately, a far too infrequent occurrence.
I suspect that Day of Days are currently a better live band than this album would suggest so, like so many of their contemporaries, it will be a case of wait and see regarding their chances of success.