Little Comets In Search Of Elusive Little Comets (Dirty Hit)
2/5
By: Theo Krekis
They might have a number three hit under their belts in ‘One Night In October’, but in five years time, won’t we all be asking the same question the Arctic Monkeys asked themselves – who the f*ck are Little Comets? Perhaps. But let’s reserve judgement for the moment and consider their album’s worth of throwaway indie pop - their debut LP, In Search of Elusive Little Comets.
They’ve been described as ‘kitchen sink indie’, a genre I had never heard of before, but instantly presumed was created by a pretentious chap who wore high waisted jeans and orthopaedic shoes. Kitchen sink indie? Absolute nonsense! Not once did this album make me think of a kitchen sink, or the Fairy Liquid soaked sponge, dirty pan and a half sipped cup of tea precariously balanced inside it. No. Instead, it reminded me of the Arctic Monkeys-aping scene which emerged a few years ago and quickly outstayed its welcome, like the balding and slightly awkward looking man who leaves your house party four days after its actually finished.
As such an album, it has everything you’d expect - songs revolving around young love, having a twenty-something life crisis and that particular sense of ennui with what life has to offer (and let’s not exclude the obligatory track named after a girl –‘Joanna’).
There is neither a definitive favourite here, nor a mind numbingly boring piece of album filler. Instead, this record is a pretty steady and constant ride, where each song is a little hard to distinguish from the previous, but just as difficult to hate. In saying this, there’s an unusual kind of guilty pleasure which accompanies each listen to In Search Of Elusive Little Comets, and by the time last track ‘Intelligent Animals’ finishes you’re left feeling satisfied with the past thirty minutes.
Whether that’s because of Little Comets’ effective melodies and catchy choruses, or whether it’s the nostalgic warmth that comes from yearning for a time where you’d wash your jeans at 80 degrees centigrade so they’d be that little bit tighter... well, that’s up to you.
Little Comets - Adultery by Mud Hut Digital
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