Artist : Jake Penate
Album : Torn On The Platform
Label : XL
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 210 kbps avg
Source : CD Single (1-2 tracks)
Playtime : 00:06:42 (10.6MB)
Rls date : 2007-06-25
Store date : 2007-06-25
[Track List]
1. Torn On The Platform 3:57
2. On The Road 2:45
The latest effort from peachy-piece Londoner Jack Pe±ate
is this single 'Torn on the Platform', a peppy pint of
rock boogie-woogie. Penate has recently been crowned with
complimentary press and soppy statements such as "the word
cool doesn't even to begin to articulate his wonder",
which frightens me a bit because the statement implies
that he's some sort of inaccessible, larger-than-life
artistic figure of transcendence which, judging by this
single, couldn't be further from the truth. On second
thought, the statement is bang on: "cool" has absolutely
nothing to do with this drearily disposable pop.
As a fading snippet of a train announcer mumbles some, I
don't know, train announcements, Penate moans some overtly
sentimental sap-deal about missing someone and loving
someone among some sparse but predictably placed ballad
chords. It plays out like a pop-rock version of teen
candy, oh-baby-baby R&Bà but wait! Jack insists it's not
just another love song about unrequited pleasures of the
flesh as he reveals, "You're not my girl, you're my town."
Without warning, the tune schizophrenically breaks up into
high school hall-sounding swing, the type of progression
that's too close to the music of those
history-according-to-pop-culture cinema soundtracks, all
faux-'50s mmm-bop-bop and that (i.e. Grease, Back to the
Future). It all quickly calms down to ska-bite guitar
snips and proceeds to alternate between the two techniques
before carelessly revelling into bibble-babble, making you
wish that he'd just give up and scat the rest of the words
because it would demonstrate the same shallow, wishy-washy
effect. If the infamous Mr Penate is some
larger-than-life, artistic figure of transcendence, this
single is one sloppy way of showing it.