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Charlottefield - How Long Are You Staying |
The debut album from Charlottefield sits in a curious place; the familiarity of the spiky melodically immediate guitars tick all the boxes รก la mode, but it's a relief to see proof that genuine leftfield artists are still out there because this is music firmlye xperimental in construction resembling more Dischord than Domino.
It took two years of growth before making this album, and when Charlottefield get it right it is a genuinely exciting proposition. Expert drumming from Ashley Marlowe plays a huge
part in ramming home opener 'Nine Tails', while the hypnotically repetitive guitar lines of 'A-B' and 'Clipper' are both highlights which while firmly Washington D.C. in resonance manages to remain strictly English in delivery.
Unfortunately, though, by the time they reach stand out song 'How Long', it ironically is just that, a little out of place, and, during 'The Eleventh Day', one is left fighting the feeling that this band clearly has a point to make - why hamper delivery with mainly indecipherable vocal lines? A solid start nonetheless, but perhaps in another two years we might expect to see Charlottefield exemplified by the best of this debut.
Chris Hidden |