The Crimea - 'Baby Boom' (Boobytrap)
4/5
By: Clara Burtenshaw
Wales strumpets The Crimea have mastered the fine art of compounding yearning guitar-lines with dreamingly lethargic vocals without sounding like your average whiney indie waifs - a rare achievement, and luckily for us, one with a unique outcome.
Like an amalgam of The Flaming Lips' best bits and the Eels' most beautiful, the band formerly known as The Crocketts have created a superior cross-breed, and one that will hopefully disseminate among the music world; after all, word of Crimea's wit and sighing tones are spreading like wildfire, and any band that manage to sing 'Fred Flintstone' and 'Tarzan king of the jungle' with a straight face deserve recognition of the highest order.
B-side 'The Great Unknown' also deserves a mention; an eclectic combo of wistful guitars and a Spanish-paced drumbeat unravel a piano-melody of such nursery-rhyme simplicity that extricating the child-like notes from the recesses of your memory will be nigh-on impossible. This, juxtaposed with momentous guitar build-ups stolen from only the best Mexican spaghetti western should provide The Crimea with their biggest hit to date. And like all good inventions, it seems as if it was stumbled upon by accident.
Artists in this article: The Crimea
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