Labels: Modern Radio
Review by: Andy Malcolm
It’s throwback time! A big holed, nostalgic looking, 2 songed, 45rpmed, red coloured 7″, ready to hit your turntable and turn your room into a time machine. The Hidden Chord are all set to rock you in a distinctly 60’s way, replete with knackered production and a record that sounds like it’s a lost classic.
“Bay-beeeeeeeeee” kicks off the title track “I’ve Blown It Again”, in kick some awesome talky/sung snotty dual vocals, and the whole thing is just pure rockin’ and plied with an amazing tune ready to cause you to get down on the dance floor, wear a suit, and just make you an awful lot cooler than you already are. This is the super sound that Paris, Texas so desperately wish they were capable of performing on their album. Anyways, there’s a whole host of influences from the Beatles to the Kinks to the Rolling Stones to the facts that Knol from KillSadie is on guitars & vox, and Dan from Ordination of Aaron and Broken Hearts are Blue is playing bass. Yeah, yeah! Fuck emo! Heh.
I’m not quite so certain with the b-side, where they add in some organ, but it’s still toe-tapping and fun, on the chorus they all shout “None of us, none of us, none of us, HEY!”. That’s fun.
Noisy, hooky, melodic, danceable rock. What more could you ask for?