Re: Munroe Effect - You Are Goldmouth EP
Munroe Effect are a fluffy rock band from Portsmouth. Munroe Effect are the kind of rock band that, instead of grabbing you by the balls and squeezing, will tickle them slightly. With some kind of feathered instrument, a boa or a duck, maybe?
The music seems to come from a basic enough place. The guitars strum nicely along, changing chords every once in a while to keep your interest, the drums beat simple rhythms and the singing drones tunefully through, about some subject matter that doesn't quite interest me enough to listen to the lyrics. Not to say that the music is boring or badly played, no, no, no, I'm not saying that at all. It just plays things pretty safe.
Every now and then the singer begins to scream his little heart out, bless him. While this is entertaining, I'm not sure it's for the correct reasons. I'd love to see him do it live, his little face all red and twisted, looking like he's fallen off the toilet.
Munroe Effect are described as "experimental Post-Punkers" and except for a few whiffs, like a fart on a farm, I don't see this at all, and would see them more as a post-recent-bland-rock group. Meaning that Munroe Effect are after the bland rock, not part of it.
There are some interesting sections in on this EP, and would really like to see how they develop as a band. This is obviously a first draft, and it sounds like it. If I had heard them on the radio, amongst a mix of other music, I would not have picked them out, but I feel privileged to have been given the chance to listen to them.
Check them out, but wait to see how things turn out for them before investing too heavily.
Listen to this album: While balancing a heavy suitcase on your head.
Rating: 68%
Comment Posted on: February 26, 2009, 02:13 PM
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