Review time Apr 12 2006
Ok listen up boys and girls, review time. I planned over the last few weeks to write reviews on a few things, however I haven’t yet gotten round to it - so here’s a start. They aren’t huge reviews, they are more like bitesize reviews to get straight to the point ;-)
The Vines - Vision Valley
The latest effort from Australia’s “The Vines” falls short. In a big way. When I say short, I could be referring to the track length. I got to about track six, when I suddenly realised maybe I’d been sent some kind of pre-order promotional CD by mistake - the longest track so far was 2m42s in length, with a number of the songs the wrong side of two minutes. Don’t get me wrong - if the music is awesome, it could be 30 seconds long, and I’d be happy to just stick it on repeat (The Hives are an excellent example of this) - but in this case, once I hit the end of the album, I was still disappointed. With the exception of perhaps the opening track, “Anysound” and the excellent “Gross Out”, the album was a big anti-climax for someone like me, a big fan of their previous work. Even with the “epic” last track, “Spaceship” at just over 6 minutes, the album only just tips 31 minutes, and all told, it’s 31 minutes that could have been better spent elsewhere.
Overall? “Get Free”? If you can get this album for free, then it’s worth a cursory glance for the short but sweet “Gross Out”, but otherwise allow yourself three extra minutes and listen to The Hives’ last album, Tyrannosaurus Hives - more energetic, more interesting, more fun.
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