Trailer Trash Tracys : 'Candy Girl'
Released: Out Now!!!
Label: No Pain In Pop
Spawning from deepest darkest London and sounding like a bizarre otherworldly combination of Sonic Youth on crack and a bored Jesus and the Mary Chain gone bad, Trailer Trash Tracys are a perfect example of pretention gone awry.
Cashing in on the dream-like essence of The XX and also sharing similar duel vocal qualities the band should be a lover of lo-fi’s dream, what the band have however in fact constructed is a track with very little new or interesting to offer the listener that as a result straddles on the edge of being bland.
Candy Girl is stuck somewhere between the naivety of 50’s rock n roll and depth and complexity of artists like Nick Cave. The song shimmers with potential, hints of pure brilliance attempt to break out, however poorly conceived riffs and use of distant-reverberating vocals simply distract from the true lack of substance. Worsened by the artificial hiss forced upon the track, another menial addition that will fool some into thinking this makes the track ‘kooky’ and ‘cool’ when it succeeds at doing is making the production sound lazy and rushed.
Often bands still in their infancy are desperately searching for that distinguishing element that makes them stand out from an over-saturated market of mediocrity. The rushed nature that the band was formed in has resulted in a sound that is undeveloped, uninteresting and stinks of a desperate need to go back to the drawing board.
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Reply #1 on : Wed July 13, 2011, 03:54:18