Brighton Band release ‘Actor’ accomponied with a thoughtful video
Since bursting onto the scene with their debut track ‘Show Me The Way‘ Suzi Island have managed to keep a buzz surrounding the band. All this has been achieved with a genuinely good song, teasers and keeping in touch with their audience.
‘Actor’ is the latest track to be released from the Brighton act and it’s just as good as their first release, if not better. It’s clear with the video that the song tackles Women in the Film Industry, which suggests recent news has heavily influenced this track and what lies in the heart of it.
The songs is fun and full of quick hit lyrics which will resonate with music fans. The beat of the track almost sounds like a hip-hop beat with the crashing claps. Throughout the song you have well placed screeches from the guitar which adds depth to it.
This is another great release from Suzi Island, and over these next 6 Months I could see them being one of the breakout bands this year, as they’ve moved from 0-60 in no time.
Go Wolf are steadily making a name for themselves, which is due to their previous releases ‘One more night’ and ‘Voices’, but their new single ‘Talk to You’ steps the whole thing up a notch.
Their soft indie pop style gives a refreshing take on indie music, as it seems to slowly just drift away without you noticing. This can only mean good things for the indie trio as their music continue to progress and impress, hopefully this may spring an EP or an album as they undoubtedly have the talent to string one together.
This post has been a long time coming, I’ve been an awful music reviewer for the last month or so with all the work load and with uni coming back into play. After a lot of thought, and looking at how much work I will be doing I shall be aiming for at least TWO good posts a week, and I do mean good posts. Hopefully I will get a bit more time, and I shall be able to do even more, not promising anything. Right, The Vaccines, Come of Age, the second album from The Vaccines, released on the Columbia Label, and working with the producer Ethan Jones. Ethan Jones has worked with some good artists, those being Laura Marling , Kings of Leon and Paolo Nutini. There was a lot of talk coming up to this album, and I was quite excited for it, also after hearing ‘Teenage Icon’ and ‘No Hope’, but a part of me wished there was more.
The Album
I’ll begin with saying that it isn’t a terrible album, if you LOVE The Vaccines, then it’s probably going to be the best thing you’ve ever heard. It stayed in my car for healthy 2 weeks, this was not out of wanting it to be in there, this was just out of being lazy, if I wasn’t being lazy it probably would have left my car on the second day and here’s why.
I don’t think the album had a lot to offer, what it did have to offer was catchy songs, with it thought some of them were borderline pop music, decent pop music, but none the less pop music. After I was half way through the third time of listening to the album, I felt there was nothing else the album had left to offer, making it quite substance – less, and quite predictable. All the songs names were the chorus, or in the chorus, this were one of the factors making it predictable. I’d look at the case and think ‘What’s next? oh bad mood, lets wait for him to say bad mood’. I was also looking really forward to listening to Freddie Cowan’s guitar riffs and solos, yes they were all very catchy, but again I thought it was quite predictable because the solo just followed Justin’s singing, so i thought he played it quite safe for a good guitarist, and he is I saw him live and I thought he was extremely energetic when he was playing. The album for me wasn’t all bad points, it still had good points…
I’m not a music snob, I do like catchy music, I do like singing in the car every no and then. I think it’s rather a nice summer album, something nice to be driving round with, just generally singing to and that. My favourite track on the record would have to be ‘Weirdo’ or ‘Ghost Town’, mainly because I think ‘Weirdo’ is freaky, and can be a bit unnerving, also I like Justin’s lyrics in the song, I shall get on to those later. Also ‘Ghost Town’ seems to be the new ‘Noogard’, which also is quite catchy and 2 minutes of indie bliss.
Justin’s lyrics are probably what really lift the standards of this record, as there’s a lot lyrics that are quite amusing, I can’t be bothered to find them them out exactly, but the ones in ‘I wish I was a girl’, ‘Weirdo’ and ‘No Hope’, really like the lyrics in no hope.
Overall
Not a bad second album, I still think The Vaccines have something to offer, perhaps in their third album. I don’t want them just to stay an Indie-pop band, because I believe that they’re better than that. I’d like to see them be a bit more daring in their third album, a bit more raw and not so polished up. Also, let Freddie really go on the guitar and perhaps get him on vocals or something, I dunno. However I’m still going to see them when they come round to Birmingham, so they must be doing something right (keeping the tickets cheap). So if you’re seeing them in Birmingham, let me know.
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