How do you ask for an EP called ‘:0)’ at the record counter? It so happens that this latest EP from Milwaukee’s The Fatty Acids’ is a download only release, but if you’re wanting to tell your mates about it down the pub, but may help to know that it has an alternative title, namely, ‘Clown Nose Cliché Alien and Rainbow Gradient Smiley EP’.
But the chances are you’ll not be talking about this third rate Everything Everything meets new wave effort to anyone.
The synth sounds are fucking horrible. Hectic drumming blusters through some mathy doodles and bad keyboard lines rejected by Midge Ure era Ultravox and are pinned together with some energetic but obvious basslines to forge second-rate, lo-fiTwo Door Cinema Club rip-offs.
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There’s a lot going on – too much in fact, and only some of it’s good. The brevity of the songs is one positive, but for every positive there are two negatives, the ELO-isms and irritating interludes being fair examples.
Quirky’s ok: trying too hard isn’t, and being sadly, these guys not only try too hard, but fail.
The Fatty Acids Online
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