Monday 12 March 2012

Album Review

The Con -Sorrow Street

A band that may sound familiar.
Four guys wearing their mod , Paul Weller & The Jam influences on their sleeves. Delivering songs, all clocking in at under 3,5 minutes & sounding like a karaoke house band with your record collection in toe.
Who cares?
Well you should because what sets these four guys apart is a song craft beyond the obvious .
Delivered in a simple Cd ,understated paper sleeve .A black & white picture on the front .with only the track listing for information.
This is an album that sounds like the past, but somehow feels very current.
Against the back drop of an economy in free fall, & anyone under 25 feeling neglected , unemployed and angry will connect with these snarling straight talking tunes .
Sorrow Street, Last Gang in town , Sound Of Guns & Riot kids( recorded before last summers troubles ) say it all with a confident excitable swagger that's not to be unheard.
The only negative is that sometimes it sails a little to close to the past.
But some may say that the mess & state of the world at present ,has a direct whiff of 1979 about it , so who can blame them.
If your life's a mess. It's gone to the dogs at best ! As The Con would say

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