Let’s get this one rolling. Amida are a band from Manchester doing the indie pop thing and, having been around since 2005, they might even be regarded as seminal. So there you go – seminal subversive indie pop with “My Life As A Trashcan” featuring genre standard equipment like rough and ready vocals, edgy guitars and – aha! – a somewhat strange sense of humour.
At least I hope it was a sense of humour thing. Amida rush the title track by you so fast that it almost seems a throwaway. The other songs don’t quite rush by you nor, unfortunately, do they merit any particular attention with “I Was Rude, You Were Fast” being something of a clumsy morality tale that falls flat. Similarly, “Let Me Do This For You” seemed to be a jaunty little ditty about incestuous feelings that, when you think about it, was never likely to work out well and I wasn’t quite sure if this particular song was meant to be funny or just a feeble attempt to shock. The Felt Tips can turn their hand to sleaze but Amida, it would seem, cannot.
Although Amida stumble badly here, they never actually fall over. That confuses me because they should. It would make it even easier to kick them. God knows they deserve a kicking for this rather shoddy effort.