Jake Searson - Concrete And Street Lamps - CD (2005)

Labels: comedy
Review by: Andy Malcolm

Um. First up, I am not sure what is going on but I was listening to this on headphones, and the first thing you hear is a car starting, and I swear it sounded like the sound was coming from my feet. Huh? Anyway. After that I was ‘treated’ to some god awful shouty rock music. Jake Searson appears to be the singer in this band, but there are other guys credited. Is this an ego trip or something? A guy called Colin Lawrence actually plays guitar AND bass. Presumably he is some kind of an octopus. Anyway. This is beyond bollocks. Terrible rock music with some MTVmo, Hundred Reasons type elements.

After that we get an excruciating acoustic track with wrought vocals and some weird, and rather disturbing whispering going on in the background. Someone should tell this dude that Buffy the Vampire Slayer got cancelled years ago.

Also, if you get a moment, check out this bit of Jake Searsons biography! It should raise a few titters…

Jake has mixed the influences above with his own tastes, ranging from Indie to Metal, through to Hardcore and EMO. Think of Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, Green Day, My Chemical Romance and Eminem mixed with the influences above, and you get a very energetic and fun brand of music with a hard hitting sound that never fails to get people moving. He has brought a lot of his own experiences into his writing to create lyrics that many teenagers (and adults) can identify with.