Review:
'Lucky Face, The'
'Follow, Unfollow'
- Album: 'Follow, Unfollow'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '22nd September 2014'
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Our Rating:
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Tim Mullineaux may consider himself to have a lucky face, but I’m not feeling so fortunate myself having received his latest album to review. ‘Follow, Unfollow’ is his second effort, the follow-up to his eponymous debut and it’s a pleasantly light and jaunty affair. Ska and reggae-slanted guitar pop instrumentation gives the songs a breezy summery feel, while Mullineaux’s vocals sit somewhere in the region of Paul Young and Paul Heaton.
A fine line between laughter and tears, a fine line between hope and fears’ he sings on ‘A Fine Line’. Maybe so, and a fine line between brilliance and bilge, but coming on like a loved-up Finlay Quaye is just way over the line.
The slower, more cynical swipe at social media #RIP… is an improvement, and finds Mullineaux affecting more of a Morrissey type persona, lyrically and vocally, but it’s insufficient compensation for the bouncy piano-led country pop of ‘Give it to Someone’, which is so damn chirpy its irritant factor can’t fail to be high, and the happy-go-lucky whistling on ‘The Reason Why’ is simply unforgivable. Let’s face it, whistling is unforgivable. It’s annoying when old differs do it, and even more annoying when young guys do it. What makes anyone feel the need to whistle, for Christ’s sake? I certainly don’t need some overly chipper bozo doing it on a sickeningly happy record. Which is ultimately what this is.
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Unfollow. Thank you.
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author: Christopher Nosnibor
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