Review by: Ian Scanlon
Clor have had a club night at the windmill in Brixton for ages (pretty much once a month since I moved away from there). The chap who runs the place has been telling me to check them out for ages, had I still lived there I would undoubtedly have staggered along at some point, but something about his description of them, and the fact they signed to a major label almost immediately… well it put me off the bus journey. Now I’m not claiming to be psychic, but in this case, my massive prejudices were in fact correct. This is pretty sucky… The first song melts the tune of “the spy who loved me” (one of my fave Bond themes) to a boring bit of XTC aping “new wave of British new wave” … it’s not quite Andy Partridge in the lyric stakes (“let me do it for you, let me do it for me”…) not that this would matter if the song made me shake my booty (cf that Take me OUT tune which I have on 7” and have enjoyed). Hmm, a lot of it is actually making me think that they are playing the intro to that unspeakable Kaiser Chiefs song and using that as the whole song. To top it all the singer often sounds like he’s channelling a dead Brett Anderson impersonator, and the guitar parts all sound awful, someone must have sent some kind of memo to guitar players to use phasers or something. Please note, unless you are Eddie Van Halen, or Alex Chilton on that one Big Star song. DON’T. USE. PHASERS. Obviously I would bootleg this for anyone who wanted it, I can’t really imagine what for, but at any rate those fiendish boffins at EMI have stopped me from even that petty revenge… Also it seemed to get stuck in my laptop so I didn’t listen to the last two songs. Maybe they were awesome. Perhaps whoever buys it from the charity shop down the road could tell me?