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Black Watch
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Pink Hedgehog
Title:
The Hypnotising Sea
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Band:
Black Watch
Title:
The Hypnotising Sea
Reviewed By:
Andrew Carver
Date Published:
24/05/2007
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John Andrew Frederick has been making pop music with a revolving band of players under the Black Watch name for two decades. Although based in California (Santa Barbara, to be precise), Frederick’s inspiration lives across the oceans: In Britain and to an even larger degree in New Zealand and Australia.
The noisy kickoff to ‘Innercity Garden’ sounds like a refugee from 1980's New Zealand noisepop like the Cleans. The metallic squeal, tremulous vocal and the piano-sitar-radio mish-mash at the end of the title track charts a similar course.
Most of the rest of the ‘The Hypnotizing Sea’ tones things down a notch and keeps its feet in the territory laid out by the Go-Betweens. Acoustic strummer ‘Buttercup Fairchild’ – an ode to a troubled beauty – sets the tone.
Frederick’s voice is pleasant, but not blessed with an overwhelming range. Instead he gets by on intelligent, sometimes tart, wordplay. This also justifies his harmonica-heavy tribute to Bob Dylan.
Fans of Antipodean pop, or the witty lyrics of performers like Edwyn Collins will find the set entertaining.
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