Wednesday 16 May 2018

It's been 14 years since their last album but finally A Perfect Circle return...

It's difficult to say musically what Eat The Elephant sounds like but the sound does seem very in tune with the Emotive album from all those years ago. I suppose an more airy, less dense version of Tool is the best I can do

First single, The Doomed, was a bold, funereal-like march in which we are told that all there is to look forward to is being screwed over by the rich and powerful. Disillusioned is a melancholy lament about the world's technological obsession.

So far all very APC and then they slap you out of your complacency with the wonderfully off kilter So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. From namechecking the Douglas Adams book and including references to dolphins this track practically bounces along like a playful Cure (Think Friday I'm in Love). The line about the death of childhood heroes - "Willy Wonka, Major Tom, Ali and Leia have all moved on" is genius. Never has a song about the impending apocalypse sounded so fun

The amazing artwork is also some of the best this year so far


Tuesday 8 May 2018

May have found the best album of the year so far....

Over a couple of EP's and singles Bryde has built up to her debut album, Like an Island



Nowadays singer-songwriter means the trite, over polished likes of Ed Sheeran but this is raw guitar led rock. The opener Brave is my favourite track of the year - A study in being told to keep smiling after heartbreak. The ending where the spoken monologue overlays the chorus is very reminiscent of Under the Gun from the Sisters of Mercy

Less is full of squalling guitar which given airplay would have students pogoing in every Uni Bar across the country.

A couple of tracks are taken from the earlier EP's including the beautiful Transparent which should have closed the album. The ballad like Steady Heart is one track too far (album's should always be 10 tracks long...)

Desire does what it says in the title and is the soundtrack to (not so young) lust and if you get to see the video, it's amazing

Considering Sarah plays everything apart from the drums this is a phenomenal effort from a very talented artist