After covering SHINERS a while back, the fourpiece are back with a brand new song entitled ‘Just Like You’ , and proves their music is a constant breath of fresh air.
The band have a certain attitude which flows through their music, along with a gutsy swagger and arrogance. The song is an instant reminder to what was so good about Britpop and why it worked so well as their toe-tapping chorus hits you like Blur’s would.
‘Stay Alive’
After moving out to Berlin to concentrate on their music (because it’s much cheaper), the band have kept their British roots when creating their music, as ‘Stay Alive’ demonstrates. Britpop is a heavy influence in their music as you can clearly hear, however there’s a slightly more psycadelic twist to it, as the guitars aren’t as brash as Oasis or as poppy as Blur. The immediate “Ahhhhhs” you can hear in the track initially grabs your attention, as you being to sing to the song even though you’ve only been listening to it for 30 seconds, and this has a certain Oasis feel to it all, but much more mellow.
The song is exceedingly anthemic, as you could hear a crowd of drunken teenagers walking round the streets screaming it to the tops of their voices. It seems as though this has been pulled straight out of the 90’s as the riff is reminiscent of the Britpop glory years. With all of these elements it remains stand alone, and not a rip off from any other band, making it memorable and worth listening to.
The continuous growing of Big Skies can only mean good things for Britpop, regardless of them being in Berlin. As they continue to grow and hone their sound, the more they are beginning to give Britpop a new fresh face and sound, come back to the UK!
LIKE FOLLOW LISTEN
For those of you who do not know, I’m quite a big PULP fan (even though I haven’t seen them live). Three of their albums would probably make it in my top 30 Albums, those albums would be ‘This is hardcore’, ‘Different Class’ and ‘His ‘n’ Hers’. Good idea actually I might do the whole top 30 thing when I have the time.
Pulp are a very special band that have there own sound and probably couldn’t be imitated by another band because it doesn’t work without Jarvis. Without Jarvis and his sexy quirky lines and his unique vocals the songs wouldn’t work.
I was excited to see that they brought out a new song because I never listened to them while I was growing up so it was nice to think that I was actually into them when this song got brought out, and it’s a pretty good song. I wouldn’t say it’s one of the best songs they’ve ever done, but it is a pretty strong one with lyrics and that same old sound that they pull of so well. I’m glad to hear that they didn’t try and adapt their music to what is going around now, or try and change their sound or style, they’ve kept it like they should’ve done. Overall, a great song and hopefully this will spark off a new album or some more live shows, I doubt it though, I really doubt it. Listen and enjoy.
Introduction
After yesterday I was going to review one of the Arctic Monkeys albums, because the song ‘electricity’ inspired me, but I didn’t have a clue which one to do so I just left it. If you want me to review an Arctic Monkeys album, just let me know and I’ll do as soon as possible (when I get chance). So, I just grabbed an album at random and it was this one. REMEMBER I GOT INTO THIS SORT A MUSIC A BIT LATE, I GOT INTO THIS MUSIC WHEN I WAS 16. So yeah, this was the first Oasis album that I brought (see, sounds better now you know I got into this music a bit late) I brought it on the strength of my mate saying ‘It’s fucking brilliant’, and that’s all I needed for me to buy the album.
Oasis
Oasis were the first rock/rock ‘n’ roll/britpop group that I got into, again on the strength of my mate telling me ‘they’re fucking brilliant’. I thought it was a good place to start because I think they’re probably one of the best bands that there’s ever been, I think a lot of people like to steer away from this because they’re not as complex, or they ripped off the Beatles slightly, I personally don’t mind I still think they’re a great band, that had this attitude and an image that you couldn’t help but admire.
Discovering Definitely Maybe
Listening to this album was like me watching Aston Villa winning the league, it was a joy. I think all of the songs on their just carry that attitude with it, whether it’s because of the way Liam is singing it or whether it’s the way the guitar sounds, it sounds good. Obviously you’ve got the classics on their with ‘Live forever’, ‘Supersonic’ and ‘Rock and Roll Star’ but the songs around it which are rather underrated with ‘bring it on down’, which is amazing to listen to when it’s blaring out the speaker, with the bass coming out. Also with ‘Slide Away’, I think this song really goes under the radar, when it talk to people about Oasis songs a lot of the time ‘Slide Away’ doesn’t get mentioned, and when it does get mentioned it get’s a bit of a mixed reaction, which I think is mental because I think it’s one of the best songs on there. The album ends on ‘Married with Children’, which I think shows Noel wit, because he is quite funny, watch his interviews. Learning this song was probably one of the best things I’ve ever done because it winds my girlfriend up.
Digsys Dinner
I thought this song should get it’s own paragraph because I think it’s brilliant, obviously the song isn’t serious, Noel’s a clever man, he knows what he’s writing, anything that he writes doesn’t go unnoticed he knows what he’s doing. I remember going through a phase of listening to this song because I just liked the guitar parts in it, and the chord progression. I didn’t learn the lyrics for a while, but when I did, I pissed myself. Learnt it on guitar and everything just to sing it around the house to wind my mom up.
Overall 8.5
An album that will probably stand the test of time, whenever people talk about britpop or Madchester this band, this album will be mentioned immediately. For a debut album, it ain’t bad.
Songs to download/get/listen too/whatever
-Live forever
-Cigarettes and Alcohol
-Slide Away
–All the rest of them.
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