Serving as their debut a platter of tripped-out baggy shoegaze with an electro edge, Lotus Mason offer up a stylitic mash-up that sits somewhere between Happy Mondays and Curve with a hint of early Verve on 'Dream Surreal'. Said track also slings in a snippet of vocal melody nabbed from Nirvana's 'All Apologies' for good measure. It's actually not bad at all. It's certainly a lot more stimulating than the rather trudge-like 'Signs of Life', which is just too generic to be interesting, despite bringing tinges of Muse-like bombast to the bog-standard indie table.
'Suicide on the Radio' has more bite, and while it sounds like a rip-off of early B-Movie, as a fan of B-Movie, I can't really grumble. It's choppy, punchy and taut in a retro-, new-wave sort of way, and for that, I'm going to give it a thumbs up.
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