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The Landau's - What Ya Crying For Pre-release CD Single.
By Darren Bunting
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The Landau's second CD single What Ya Cryin For shows quite a step forward in production,
song writing abilities and out and out confidence from their first release Sweet But True.
it is very easy to forget this band are still only teenagers on the evidence of their recordings.
CD opener What Ya Crying For is possibly the bands best song to date mixing an assured
arrangement with clean cut production, on the surface the verses have hints of UK indie
pop punksters the Blueskins but when the harmony vocals come in things become a lot more unique.
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The song has the sort of tempo that will induce much pogoing I am sure as well as some of the bands
best lyrics and is one of those songs that had the hairs standing up on the back of my neck,
something that does not happen that often with the glut of manufactured pop forced down out throats.
Personally I feel What Ya Crying For could be the track that gets The Landau's noticed in the
way that it seems to the best distillation of the bands musical influences into something
uniquely them.
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Second track Reality brought to mind laid back early
NWOBHM/Paul Di'Anno era Iron Maiden
but with a more cultured vocal attitude and is a bit of a grower of a song.
Once again the lyrics show a maturity beyond the bands years and the more I hear the track
the more I hear in it not to mention the almost classic rock guitar break towards the
end of the song which is gone well before it has outstayed its welcome.
No over blown heavy metal style solos from these lads, you are more likely to get something direct
and to the point.
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Third and final track Game Of Life's first fifteen seconds lulls you into a feeling
that it is going to be a jazzy Red Hot Chili Peppers style laid back track with a
gently guitar intro but before you know it the real guitar riff kicks in at a head
nodding tempo that could induce some air guitar playing in less inhibited listeners than me.
When I first listened to the CD Game Of Life fell well behind
What Ya Cryin For as a
favourite track but the more I hear it the better it sounds and the bands ability to
mix rock 'n' roll guitar riffs with some more of those excellent vocal harmonies
means it also bears repeated listenings.
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This new single really showcases The Landau's ability to mix old and new musical
influences and come up with something uniquely their own, if the progression shown
between this CD and their previous single continues at this rate things should
become very interesting in a very short while for The Landau's.
5/5
Chek out their website www.thelandausrock.co.uk
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Album Reviews -
Marlowe - Popularity Gel (single/ Probe Plus) By Steve Rudd
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With no fewer than eight band members involved, Marlowe songwriter and assumed ringleader
is a brave man by the name of Simon Bradshaw, who shares the vocal duties with
Chloe Mullett's sensual voice.
John Peel is alleged to be a big fan of the band, and their third album is already
on the way, so why
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Album Reviews - Razorlight - Up All Night (album/ Vertigo)
By Steve Rudd
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The rise and rise and rise and rise in popularity of Razorlight, frankly, has been utterly extraordinary.
It seems, in just a few precious weeks, that they have been elevated way above their hard-working class
roots into relative superstars, given the huge
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Album Reviews - X Is Loaded - Raw Nerve (album/ Music For Nations) By Steve Rudd
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This Bath-based band is one of the hottest and most exciting rock bands to really
step-out in the past couple of years, blasting out with sky-scraping Emo-rock guitars,
beguilingly soulful vocals (delivered by photogenic frontman Jake) and plenty of
on-stage energy necessary to enthrall anyone who has ever had
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Album Reviews - Salako - The Story Of Our Life So Far
By Nick Quantrill
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Oh, the frustration of being a music fan. After whining long and hard about how recent years have been a
lean period for good music and searching high and low for things for something to excite my ears,
it came as somewhat of a surprise to find it lurking under my nose in Hull.
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Album Reviews - The Trailers - From The Top - 7 track EP - By the Sea By Steve Rudd
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The DIY punk ethic is still alive and kicking, even down the East Coast of England in the semi-sunny seaside town of Bridlington.
While there aren't many great bands kicking-out of Bridlington at the moment (save for the mighty Goth-Rock spectacular that is Torso Horse)
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Album Reviews - Blue Sand - Changed Names and Slaves EP By Michelle Dee
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I was given the enigmatically titled Blue Sand EP and after a couple of hearings I was hooked.
Blue Sand have played the Linnet and Lark on Princes Avenue and the newly refurbished Ringside venue in recent weeks.
The title track has a touch of early Placebo
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Album Reviews - The Alarm - In The Poppyfields
(12-track album - Snapper Music - 2004) By Steve Rudd
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25 years down the punk-rock 'n' roll line and The Alarm - assembled around the ever-photogenic mainman Mike Peters - is still going strong.
In fact, the Cardiff-based Alarm's ringing louder than ever on the back of some fabulous media exposure that vaulted right around the world and back because of the fact that Mike craftily decided
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