Bluebottle
Kiss are the great survivors of Australian rock. You feel like barracking
for them just for that fact. Then you take a listen to what they've
achieved with their music recently and that immediately overshadows
everything else. Musically they turned a new corner last year with
the appropriately named 'Revenge Is Slow', impressing everyone who
heard the album with its moody majesty. Now they achieve that all-important
next step - a worthy follow-up. The group centres around the songs
and voice of Jamie Hutchins (who also acts as producer). Sometimes
here he grows his vocals like Dinosaur Jr's J.Mascis, sometimes
he has the pop menace Tim Finn used to display with Split Enz's
early records. He "talks" his way through 'Last Playboy In Town'
ala Luka Bloom meets Dave Graney. There are slow brooding blues
rock songs, big building rockers, amazing variety from song to song,
using piano one some tracks, harmony vocals elsewhere, acoustic
guitars on another song. All round it's a really strong performance
from everyone concerned, given a great batch of songs to flesh out.
(Nonzero/Shock)
Track Listing
1.
Scouthall
2.
Everything
Begins And Ends At exactly The Right Time
Bluebottle
Kiss are the great survivors of Australian rock. You feel like barracking
for them just for that fact. Then you take a listen to what they've
achieved with their music recently and that immediately overshadows
everything else. Musically they turned a new corner last year with
the appropriately named 'Revenge Is Slow', impressing everyone who
heard the album with its moody majesty. Now they achieve that all-important
next step - a worthy follow-up. The group centres around the songs
and voice of Jamie Hutchins (who also acts as producer). Sometimes
here he grows his vocals like Dinosaur Jr's J.Mascis, sometimes
he has the pop menace Tim Finn used to display with Split Enz's
early records. He "talks" his way through 'Last Playboy In Town'
ala Luka Bloom meets Dave Graney. There are slow brooding blues
rock songs, big building rockers, amazing variety from song to song,
using piano one some tracks, harmony vocals elsewhere, acoustic
guitars on another song. All round it's a really strong performance
from everyone concerned, given a great batch of songs to flesh out.
(Nonzero/Shock)