by Dave Smith » Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:58 am
I cant believe how the press have again turned on a band releasing their second album cf Futureheads,Hope of the States,Maximo Park...etc.
In a world currently overrrun with shit sixties-sounding female singers(Duffy-ffs.) and noncies from Oxford (Foals),the GTS try and do something original and get panned.Music journo's generally=twats,a view compounded by a mate from school who went particularly strange then turned up as a freelance writing for Uncut magazine.
re Foals........I tipped them for success but because of the media hype(Buzzcocks appearance,NME front cover after two singles) I'm just sick of that lead singer.Bearing in mind every song sounds the same and they are a bunch of middle class toffs from Oxford who talk bollocks,I'll give them a miss.Bad marketing.Good marketing would have been for me to find this out after I'd bought the album.
The Nico fuelled electro-pop of The Ting Tings is my next tip.