Song reviews


  Tribal by Only You


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Intense

Abandoning subtlety and with cultural oppression being the name of the game in the lyrical content, the full on mix duly pounds all that is “Tribal” into your skull. Only You are a music machine on a mission.


  Black Darling by Saint Mary Candy


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Blended

Italian band Saint Mary Candy aren’t short on style and with their mix of retro sounds and post punk angularity taking their song “Black Darling” all the way to the bridge of sighs with the fuzzed out guitars leading the way.


  Take It Eazy by The Steele Syndicate


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Funky

You don’t get much in the way of that old school funk groove these days but The Steele Syndicate blow their horns all the way through their song “Take It Eazy” just to let you know that it’s time to get back up on the good foot.


  A Song Like You by Jakob The Liar


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Twee

Jakob The Liar is walking on the twee side of the street with “A Song Like You” and that element of awkwardness in the lyrics is right in sync with the time honoured sentimentality and even the almost but not quite guitar solo


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  Eat My TV by Liliths Army


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Punky

Playful in that way that many recreations of the punk sound are, Liliths Army bounce amiably through “Eat My TV” with much in the way of wry humour evident. At least I now know what anarchy in Northamptonshire sounds like.


  Working On The Next Life by Club 8


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Cool

Now here’s a song that will chill your wine. “Working On The Next Life” is elegantly sung and so cool that you could use it to survive the heat of the Sahara desert. No idea who Club 8 are but I guarantee that they wear sunglasses when indoors.


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  If We Could Escape by David Cloyd


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Polished

I feel that I should know who David Cloyd is as he clearly hails from those halcyon days when power pop was intertwining itself with the remnants of soft rock. His song “If We Could Escape” is duly polished to commercial standards.


  Ghost by Hannah Duckworth


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Charming

“Ghost” has its moments of awkwardness yet Hannah Duckworth has the charm to make this song more than music by numbers and her words soon loop themselves around you in a rather radio friendly manner.


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  Sorry! by Propter Hawk


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Robust

Propter Hawk do a nice line in straight down the line four on the floor rock music with some suitably robust female vocals giving “Sorry!” the power to energise your beer fuelled ears. Definitely nothing to apologise for here.


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  Fields of Green by Izabella Lily


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Prim

Splendidly anodyne, “Fields of Green” sounds just like a pastiche of the more skywards looking side of seventies rock right down to the guitar solo. Of course, it is probably more than that and Izabella Lily duly puts her heart into the vocals.


  You Got Up by Cece Worley


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Uplifting

As modern day Christian music goes, “You Got Up” proceeds at an unexpectedly lively pace with Cece Worley even managing to squeeze in a direct quote from the Bible on her way from start to finish. That’s uplifting.


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  My Teeth by Test Plan


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Smoking

All sharp angles and discontent, Test Plan do their dance punk thing once more with “My Teeth” and duly grind it up into the soundtrack to flashing lights and maximum volume. I know its retro style but I reckon you could start a fire with this one.


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