Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Aloud.com review
nice words written about us by aloud.com.
"Being downstairs in the Cross Kings is like being inside a cartoon. The walls are covered in brightly coloured graffiti, there are some nice sofas and the bar was stuffed with moustached indie boys (oh come on, could you ever take somebody under 30 with a moustache seriously?) and girls constantly taking pictures in a "That's totally my new MySpace picture. No, THAT'S totally my new MySpace picture …" style. With all this in mind, The Fourers had a lot to compete with.
And compete they did. The band have just finished making their debut album in John Peel's basement, and it's easy to see why the late tastemaker would have approved. Their music takes mid-nineties indie vocals, throws in 80's-style keyboards, and shakes in influences from every end of pop and rock (one song even sounds like a sci-fi cover of Orson's 'No Tomorrow' which is brilliantly weird). It's catchy, unashamedly poppy, sing-a-long music to dance to, given an edge by strangely mournful vocals that lift it above the usual catchy pop. Crowd favourites included the hotly-tipped songs, 'Wood For The Trees' and 'Laptop'.
If the band's performance hadn't won me over, their politeness would have done. You have to love a band who claim that they can only do one song in the encore because they've run out of songs. Now, that's honest."
we had more songs but we wanted a drink.
next gig: Old Blue Last, 12 February
"Being downstairs in the Cross Kings is like being inside a cartoon. The walls are covered in brightly coloured graffiti, there are some nice sofas and the bar was stuffed with moustached indie boys (oh come on, could you ever take somebody under 30 with a moustache seriously?) and girls constantly taking pictures in a "That's totally my new MySpace picture. No, THAT'S totally my new MySpace picture …" style. With all this in mind, The Fourers had a lot to compete with.
And compete they did. The band have just finished making their debut album in John Peel's basement, and it's easy to see why the late tastemaker would have approved. Their music takes mid-nineties indie vocals, throws in 80's-style keyboards, and shakes in influences from every end of pop and rock (one song even sounds like a sci-fi cover of Orson's 'No Tomorrow' which is brilliantly weird). It's catchy, unashamedly poppy, sing-a-long music to dance to, given an edge by strangely mournful vocals that lift it above the usual catchy pop. Crowd favourites included the hotly-tipped songs, 'Wood For The Trees' and 'Laptop'.
If the band's performance hadn't won me over, their politeness would have done. You have to love a band who claim that they can only do one song in the encore because they've run out of songs. Now, that's honest."
we had more songs but we wanted a drink.
next gig: Old Blue Last, 12 February
