Chrash
"Audio Feng Shui" CD
Future
Appletree
Genre: indie rock, indie pop
March: 2007 |
Chrash, who I've previously reviewed, pour
on more basic indie pop/rock with Audio Feng Shui and, well,
that's about it really. This is a 9 song collection of pop songs,
somewhere in the Teenage Fanclub, Pavement, and
Shudder To Think mold. The tracks are fairly bare-bones but
not overly lo-fi, with decent production values throughout. I'm
finding a few of them minorly hum-worthy ("The New Immigrant Song",
"Box Cars (A Long Line Of"), but hard to distinguish between and
perhaps not as memorable as I might like. Though the whole disc is
only nine songs long, it's hard for my mind not to wander to other
things - despite the clever quips and wordplay the band tends to
inject. More overt hooks would certainly improve Chrash's
formula, and while I don't find anything offensive or unlikeable about
this disc, I find the homogeneity and unspectacular nature somewhat
stale. Still, for the grizzled pop lover, these melodic songs are a
pleasant romp.
mp3s (from futureappletree.com):
all roads,
boxcars (a long line of)
71%
youuuuuutube!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izr2E4Tpess
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 9 tracks, 28:53,
distributed by
the label,
released 2006] |