Labels: Savage Quality Recordings
Review by: Alex Deller
Imagine you had the chance to see Angel Hair in your favouritest punk-friendly pub, basement or concert hall. Just imagine! But instead of going, you decide to listen to it from another building. One that’s across the street. Maybe a coffee house or a sandwich shop or an ice cream parlour. Despite the distance and the background noise you can still hear a bit of what’s going on. Indeed, dissonant blasts and strangled vocals and that sort of thing drift over while you sip your Americano, nibble a baguette or tuck into a delicious knickerbocker glory. But it isn’t really the same, is it? That’s kind of what’s going on with The Floor Above. The aim is probably something far cooler and au courant than a glib, 20-year-old Gravity Records comparison but, frankly, that’s what it reminds me of. A stack of songs, each roughly a minute long, seemingly tossed off with nary a second thought. There is some sort of hostile promise buried away here, but at the moment it’s a fairly flimsy, throwaway dose of demo-quality stuff bunged on a big piece of vinyl. Log the name and maybe check back later, I think.