Labels: Laissez Faire
Review by: Andy Malcolm
We get a lot of what I would consider mainstream indie for review. Sometimes the band has big backing, sometimes they are just striking out on their own. A lot of it is pretty bad. Ice Black Birds could have fallen into that category but this is reasonable enough, or maybe I have grown immune to it. “As Birds We’d Be Fine” kind of reminds me of old Polyvinyl band Paris, Texas in a way. Maybe it’s the poppy guitar plucking, and soaring chorus. The references on the promo sheet certainly aren’t the kind that’d normally engender a decent review on the C mind you. The vocals are somewhere between Kings of Leon and Talking Heads, which certainly elevates them above the usual chancers I hear on the more dubious UK indie that winds up in my CD player. The second song however is dreck, it seems to be that the band is trying to borrow from a genre (in this case blues) and fuse it with their own sound. And I had to turn it off when the dude starts wailing like he is in the Darkness. Jesus!!! Wow. Seriously. not just skip to the end, but turn the CD player off. I couldn’t handle any more. The other song was alright though.