ARTiST: Clone Quartet
TiTLE: Carousel/Played To Death
LABEL: Tigertrap
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 12:14 min
SiZE: 14,9 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: May-28-2007
RELEASE DATE: May-28-2007
WEBSiTE: www.clonequartet.com
Track List:
01. Carousel 02:39
02. Played To Death 02:53
03. Unlock It 02:36
04. Carousel (Skibunny Remix) 04:06
Release Notes:
So confident are Clone Quartet that youÆll like
their debut single, theyÆre content to spend twenty
of the first thirty seconds of æCarouselÆ woah-ing
away to themselves like some kind of electro
Hard-Fi, which is bad news if you have the same
nightmares about Richard Archer as I do.
But the quartet amount to more than just a frontman
with bushy eyebrows and a face you could happily
punch all day, and whilst æCarouselÆ might never
stray far from its in-fashion beginnings û all
off-beat hi-hats and falsetto backing vocals over
its guitar ænÆ drum machine setup û it is the second
of the two A-sides, æPlayed To DeathÆ, which shows
us what these Clones can really do. ThatÆs not to
say that the first doesnÆt have some nice touches,
but even the infrequently-used æcoin-collectionÆ
sound effect that sounds like itÆs straight outta
some Gameboy game canÆt match the vocal disdain of
the second.
Almost as on edge as Davey MacManusÆ days in The
Crocketts, the vocal pattern goes from dancing in
and out of the free-moving lead guitar line to
breaking out into lung-busting, Biffy-endorsed
yelling whenever the power chords kick in and
everything goes decidedly massive over a stomping
beat that almost buzzes under the weight of its
angry tension. Add to this a keyboard-mashing
stop-start outro and the picture is complete, plus
they get points for brevity too û neither song
threatens the three-minute mark.
Bring the (highly-tuneful, electro) noise!