1990s - Cookies (Rough Trade)
2/5
By: Christiana Spens
In the stoner-pop tradition of Ok Go, the Hussy's, Rooney and the Darkness, the 1990s are playing a parody of rock 'n' roll, all sex and drugs and bad rhymes. They've got substance abuse, but little substance in their songs... Yet with a name like 1990s, maybe that's what you'd expect...
They play it pretty well though, for beer-drenched bravado. They're a party band, they're a Student Union band to be more accurate... something to go with cheap beer and vodka lemonades and fumbling in the darkness...
They hail from Glasgow, and there are lines in the lyrics about missing lectures "Thinking of Not Going" - "I got a lecture at 3.15 / This town is really mean, If I don't go / They'll kick me out..."(Genius...), happy pills and weed, and as such there's very little that's remotely new about them. I feel like I've heard the songs already, maybe at school, maybe at teenage band nights, maybe some dark damp night in Glasgow... I feel like they probably went to my high school.
They'd probably be good live, they'd probably be entertaining, but there's something grating about the cockiness of the vocals and something clichéd about the guitar lines. I've never seen the point of parody bands other than to be on the soundtrack to something like Hollyoaks. As a band they're a bit too much like cheap vodka. They work if you're desperate. But as all records tend to cost the same, that's not really an excuse when it comes to music.
Stream 'See You At The Lights' from 'Cookies' HERE.
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