Who would ever have expected a band called Munich to sound like 'Back Room' era Editors, eh? With no mention of Editors whatsoever, the band's singer and lyricist, Stuart Slade prefers to emphasise his indebtedness to 'extraordinary songwriters such as Robert Smith and Conor Oberst', and there is a definite hint of mid 80s Cure discernible in 'All Sussed Out', not least of all in the vocal delivery.
It's actually pretty good in all fairness, although whether I'd concur with the assertion that Slade 'twists his words from the normal to something quite beautiful and delivers them with a rawness and passion that cannot be faked' is a matter for debate. Plus, however you dress it, they still sound like Editors. Still, it's not the points of reference that count, but how they're used, and 'All Sussed Out' is taut and suitably dramatic yet accessible, and the cover of Roy Orbison's 'I Drove All Night' on the flipside comes as rather a disappointment, being rather predictable and largely unremarkable.
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Munich Online
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