Artist : Brinkman
Album : Brinkman
Label : EMI Records
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 212 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:12:42 (20.4MB)
Rls date : 2007-04-16
Store date : 2007-00-00
[Track List]
1. Change It 2:46
2. I Wish 3:01
3. Pillow 3:14
4. Curse Of The Girlfriend 3:41
Brinkman are the antithesis of the overnight sensation
syndrome that hypes bands who are barely out of the
rehearsal room, only to see them fade back into obscurity
when the next flavour of the month turns up.
Despite only being in their mid-20s, Brinkman have lived a
bit. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Paul Cook and drummer
Neil Kerly have been in bands together for ten years,
while drifting through a succession of McJobs as
shelf-stackers and electricians mates. ItÆs fair to say
theyÆve paid their dues, and itÆs paid dividends in the
form of Brinkman, and a collection of songs that are
witty, warm, and tuneful in equal measure. These songs
also revive a quintessentially British guitar pop lineage
that has laid somewhat dormant for the best part of a
decade.
Call it Britpop if you must, but Paul CookÆs songs are
timeless enough to echo Ray DaviesÆ pithy social
commentaries while also contemporary enough to put a very
modern spin on single life in a fussy, dysfunctional 21st
century.