Labels: self released
Review by: Andy Malcolm
It’s my lucky day, three more tracks of student rock from these here band. It is fairly easy to identify bands as being wrong for the pages of this website by the band name. Dripfeed? Silverwish? That’s certainly no Light the Fuse and Run or Thrukmaster Def 8 COCKWOK (or whatever it is that Chris Bress is probably reviewing tomorrow). Hrumph.
Let me delve into my well thumbed “BIG BOOK OF STUDENT BASTARD STEREOTYPING”. Dripfeed play a brand of inoffensive jangly indie rock that would be well at home on the CD player of 18 year old Danny who has just started a 3 year course in Sociology at RandomShittyFormerPolytechnic U, with him chilling out there in a haze with his badly rolled ‘funny cigarette’, Che Guevara posters adorning the wall and, well, I have erased pretty much all of my first couple of years of university experience from my brain as they were fucking rubbish so I am not really certain what my hall mates were like any more. Ace. Anyway, Danny would well love this band, he would go see them be the first band on at the NME tour in the union bar, have 8 pints of Fosters at £1.20 a throw, puke up on a girl he fancied and then go home and pass out on his bed. He would repeat this process for the next 9 weeks (or however long the student year is lately), going to see 9 other support bands that enjoy the work of Coldplay equally as much as the highly tuneful, highly competent, highly safe Dripfeed.
This record numbs my mind with it’s bafflingly high level of mainstream indie mediocrity. Congratulations to Dripfeed, you sound like you are a highly capable band worthy of note within your genre. You are way more proficient at playing in a band than I am at writing reviews for starters. Alas, Collective-Zine is not interested in your genre, but bids you a fond farewell and best wishes for your promising musical futures. Especially if you get to be really big because then I can sell this on E-Bay and piggy back on your success. Ta.