Various Acts - 'Sick Of Silence' (Probation)
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By: Samantha Hall
So word on the rowdy Newport street is that there's a mammoth and swift Welsh scene tearing up the wool-ridden countryside? Indubitably, there has been a pocket of tight and indeed well 'scrumpy' bands come out of the western tag of our fair island, but can that be strictly designated as a scene? An entire country - a scene?
Although there's none of the main ambassadors of their leek-ridden land on here; no Super Furries, no Mclusky - not even, dare we add... Lostprophets? Maybe that's cos it is an 'underground' compilation, dahling. OK, fair enough. Even if you don't perhaps know your Welsh stuff as much as you should, this does form a pocket-full of lushly green delights.
Midasuno riot and rampage their way admirably through track-three, certainly making carvings of their own - pop-claps rhythms backed by vitalised crash and burn guitar noise. Douglas pave the familiar with tried and tested but yet still fairly tantalising danceable crack pop. Then come Emily All Over in the form of 'Of No Consequence'. Well there's your 'Poppets' emo slice for you; knew it had to be in there somewhere. Hmm, distorted echo wretches and crunchy drum trebles - delightfully agreeable, yet perhaps not deeply fulfilling.
Blunt obscenity of it all is: if the distant reverie of a musical land where there's 'no such thing as stress, and emo-driven, scruffy gents growl away to personally satisfy your own need for some rock dosage, then get this compilation. If you subconsciously fear, however, the only real angst these tastefully scruffy rock gents have in fact is being subjected to that of the empathetic issues covered in 'Coronation Street', then we'd probably stay clear.
Artists in this article: Various Acts
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