Elle Milano - Laughing All The Way to the Plank

Brighton Electric

July 2, 2008, 06:50 PM

Elle Milano have definitely listened too much to The Killers while writing/recording their third single Laughing all the way to the plank.
Thoguh what they seem to miss from their US alter-ego is the ability to build up their own songs in their own recognizable style, but still around melodic chord sequences.

The title song Laughing all the way to the plank has it's good yet brief moment in the full-chorus... If you hadn't to wait a minute and a half to get there, it would've been nicer though.

The very beginning of the second song Killin' Time I think has a willingly reference to the Mr. Brightside distinctive guitar sound, but again... a good chorus in the middle of nowhere, and sadly the last track Chess Tragedy doesn't escape this either with a quite pointless and repetitive instrumental intro that goes more than one whole minute into the song. It would've made more sense maybe to make it just an instrumental song... I could've tried to find a meaning there at least...


But don't get me wrong, it's not just bad bad bad.
Thing with Elle Milano is I'm still unsure if I like them because of the few bright melodic sparks, or if I don't because such sparks are well hidden in minutes of noise.