The Sound Explosion - 'Street Freak' (Captains Of Industry)
2/5
By: Thomas Hannan
There's something about the rudimentary pluck to all this that makes the name seem even more like that of a band who've been around for years; not the bunch of Geordies not even out of their teens yet that this lot are; and - similarly - something about the simplicity of the single riff that constitutes the entire song that will hark back to a long forgotten time, when people got away with writing rock and roll this darn straightforward without the general public even batting an eyelid.
Curse all that good British music we've been hearing recently then for making us that little bit more, well, picky. Of course, we still get good riffs, actually we get some cracking riffs, just at the minute we're used to them lasting roughly twenty seconds and there being about eight of them in a song. The one real, bluesy shrug of 'Street Freak' just doesn't seem to warrant being the basis of an entire single - or at least that is not anymore.
They sound like an entertaining bunch though, The Sound Explosion. It sounds like a good band to be a bass-player in. Yet it's a little disheartening to hear something that, in less enlightened times in years gone by, would have been lapped up by all and sundry simply fail to impress or invigorate to any notable extent today. Disheartening that is, for the boys behind it. Luckily, for the rest of at least, there's enough else going on to console ourselves in.
Artists in this article: The Sound Explosion
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