The Neutrinos - 'Sick Love' (Wet Nurse)
2/5
By: Matt Tomiak
There's a scene in an episode of 'Knowing Me Knowing You' - the series in which Steve Coogan's genius comic creation of Alan Partridge made his solo TV debut - which instantly brought to mind The Neutrinos and their debut 'Sick Love'. Alan has on his show a band called Shona McGough performing a track called 'Monday Morning' ('She's stalking the streets/Her brains on fire/She guns down twenty in Vision Hire. Blood bath! Blood bath!')
It's all eerily reminiscent of this album; as a cursory glance across 'Sick Love's
squalid tracklisting attests. 'Puckered Arse', 'Sell Me Your Skin', 'Ugly'. It's clear we ain't dealing with the Polyphonic Spree here.
The fashionably debauched air they employ throughout feels contrived and affected, but it's still entertaining enough. But when The Neutrinos appear to be trying too hard, they come off more like campy goth bogeymen than genuinely threatening. 'Murder' strives for threatening femme fatale creepiness ('You gotta murder someone/To get a little thing done/You gotta act like a whore to get your foot in the door'), but resembles nothing so much as The Who's novelty track 'Boris the Spider'.
Elsewhere, the choppy foreboding of closer 'Tell Me So' and the Garbage-esque 'Blood Red Lips' accomplish more credibility, but it's all ends up sounding a bit silly. Not quite 'back of the net', then.
Artists in this article: The Neutrinos
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