Artist: Rank Deluxe
Source: Paul Groome
This fits in very well with the existing 'Britpop' guitar bands. I'm not having a dig at these guys; It's just hard to make an impression in a genre of music that is already swamped withFranz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs clones, without really breaking the mould. Rank Deluxe have given it a good bash though, and what a shed load of influences they've wedged onto one CD!
Dole Queue, the reggae fuelled opener is up beat and filled with lots of social observations on what a mess those bastard politicians have made of our world. My word; What bastards. This is a common trend throughout the album, and although I have no doubt of their sincerity, punk bands already covered this territory many times over.Save It For Tomorrow is a deadly, balls out, rock song! It could possibly be something Supergrass wished they'd written. Guitar solo and everything!Nice.
That's what the problem is though. There's simply too much of everything. Genres are intermingled in a big, old pot of melted music stuff. Only a handful of bands have ever successfully fused such a wide variety of genres into their music. Unfortunately, it seems that they approached this collection of songs with a sort of "throw enough types of mud at a wall and someone will appreciate it" angle. Despite several moments that have me reaching to increase the volume, they've taken a half pint of reggae, two measures of punk and dollop of clean-tone-jangly-guitar-sound Top 40 blandness.
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