The All New Adventures Of Us - 45 Forever (One Little Indian)
2/5
BUY DOWNLOADOne is not meant to judge a book by its cover - however, what is the point of a cover if not to help you judge the book? Covers are there to guide you through the maze of modern literature, informing you of a books content, theme, and genre - and therefore, in actual fact, one should try as much as possible to go against this statement.
It is just as easy to judge a band by the fact that they have, once, been on Sam Duckworth's label. The Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. man and apparent record company fat cat clearly saw a little (actually, quite a lot) of himself in this 7-piece from Northampton. The All New Adventures Of Us are not here to rip up any rulebooks - they are merely, as their blurb puts it, attempting "to tell a story through song. No hidden agenda." Which would be fine, but alas, I can find little degree of narrative or poetry to their lyrics.
"There's one thing that you need to know/when you're alone/make your record bag your family home."
"My best friends are all wax now."
"They will all return before us/an age or two ago."
Staying in the same tense is usually helpful, chaps.
Musically, the song consists of the now compulsory stalwarts of modern indie-rock; pretty boy-girl harmonies, guitars picked in the verse and strummed in the chorus, keyboards HITVERYHARDFORADDEDEMOTION, and a chord sequence lifted right out of "How to Break the Top 40 - Part One".
Flipside 'Time For A Change' however is better, because it knows it's not going to be changing broken lives or nursing broken hearts, and thus ghosts along on dainty acoustic plucking. They do possess a certain charm and sincerity, but they will have to craft out a sound of their own if they are to survive among the innumerable identikit bands that currently saturate the nation's consciousness.
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