23RainyDays – Wonderful Disaster v2 [EP]

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May 10, 2009, 10:33 AM

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If you look at the band website for 23RainyDays, you will see the Washington DC four-piece have been playing and recording for five years now. The site is glossy, colourful and quite substantial in terms of content. The music of 23RainyDays is equally glossy but lacking of any colour or substance. It is would-be noir-ish electro-goth-rock that is unmemorable and with little to recommend it. Lead track on this re-worked version of “A Wonderful Disaster” EP ‘Once A Hero’ laments how “I was once your saviour, once your hero" but in “everything you gave … you lied”. This tale of a lover spurned is delivered without a shred of emotion or sense of loss.

Second track “My Blackest Day” repeats this trick: "these are the blackest days I know....these are the darkest nights I have seen”. But it sounds as though lead singer Ian Kaine MacGregor is reciting the items he has forgotten to buy at the supermarket. Each song is 'driven' by tinny weedy synth drums and keyboards with any guitars right down in the mix. MacGregor’s vocals are thin and reedy as well as emotionless. In fact everything about this EP is thin and weedy. It might be the nature of this 're-worked' EP but any sense of goth-rock edge is completely lacking. “Goodnight and Goodbye” is the closest to a bit of oomph, a bit of passion and yet it still sounds like an unimaginative and pale imitation of the disco-indie-rock of The Killers at their lamest.

23RainyDays? More like 6DrearySongs: best to be avoided.

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