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Fur Blend
Philophobia
Music
On
their Soundcloud page Fur Blend claim to have invented an "original
sound". Now, call me cynical but I've heard this claim before and 99% of
the time what has been created isn't "original", and about 95% of the
time what they have created is utter dogshit. Fortunately for Fur Blend, while I
failed to discover that elusive, original sound that popular music is crying
out for, they succeeded in not being utter dogshit (I would be happy for them
to quote me on that for any future press releases).
I
think, perhaps, what they meant to say when they described their music as
original, was eclectic. Eclectic is a horribly over-used word by music
reviewers and press agents but I'm not getting paid to write this review and
pressing shift F7 always seems like cheating to me. But at least it is the right
word.
They
start their EP with a fantastic track called Valley Girl. They sound like a proper band, possibly from Oregon , and, having
never seen the band live, I would guess at least one of them has a beard. More
importantly though, the guitar lick is top and so is the chorus.
At this
point I thought I was in for an EP of slacker stuff, but like flicking a record
player from 33 to 45, they stepped on the accelerator and drove to Punk Town
The
final track of the EP, Speeding Heart,
is one of those acoustic numbers with some faint strings in the background and
some mournful lyrics about the passing of time and such like. It's the kind of
song bloody loads of people love nowadays, but I only tend to hear this music
if I accidentally turn on a rubbish "British made" drama and they
have some melancholic sounds over the top of someone walking through a park
while looking sad because they've lost a winning lottery ticket. You know the
sort. Not for me I'm afraid, despite the nice harmonies, and I preferred Fur
Blend when they kept their amps plugged in.
Stay
young is my advice. At all costs.
Stephen Vigors
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