Spring Offensive - Pull Us Apart
by Fiona Hutchings
published: 11 / 8 / 2010
Label:
Friars Music
Format: CD
intro
Lyrically clever and promising mini debut album from Oxford-based indie rock band, Spring Offensive
The term indie rock is very over used almost to the extent that it becomes meaningless. And yet I am struggling to come up with another easily accessible label to hang on this Oxford five piece. The nasal mockney spoken lyrical presentation jarrs with the mostly tuneful instrumental offerings. Ironically when Lucas Whitfield actually sings it stops sounding so much like yet another band down the student union and the beginnings of something more cohesive. The subject matter covered is eclectic and mostly appealing, from eating the contents of your wallet and the obsessions and suicide of Alex Turing to the almost inevitable 'how the band nearly gave up but stuck it out in the end' track. Altogether a grower more than an immediate kiss on the mouth. This is a debut 'mini album' and it perhaps suffers slightly from delusions of grandeur and doesn't fully deliver but for once my initial reaction of indifference were wrong. I'd forgive Spring Offensive the failings of this offering because I expect that what will come next will be woth listening to and maybe start redefining that tired old indie-rock label.
Track Listing:-
1 I Found Myself Smiling2 Abacus Rex
3 Every Coin
4 The Cable Routine
5 Everything Other Than This
6 Slow Division
7 Little Evening
8 The First of Many Dreams About Monsters
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