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Safari Man
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The american quintet The Buttertones is back to present its audience with the fifth project.
Right off the back, it's quite we are presenting with an oppenner that will set the tone for pretty much the full length of the whole album, with a fast paced tune that remind us some bands that began the movements of punk rock in Britain - like The Clash - but with the "uneasiness" of the american bands that dominate the late 70' of the postt-punk scene. "Phantom Eyes" is a nostalgic track being all this said. The album goes on to presenting us pretty good songs with a pint of jazz here and there, which makes up for a really enjoyable record, but a pretty forgettable one also, since most of the tunes on this one sounds like the previous one. In the end, the tracks that really stand out are the one's that runs a little from the conventional sound that the band try to emulate, otherwise, you would shake your head through out this LP without remembering a single title on this.
To summarize, it's a decent album that fells like a long song, with every 3/4 minutes changing a little on it's vibe or pace, which is a shame, because this could have been so much more in terms of experimentations and music growth and so much spicy in terms of the vision and creativity... A shame truly.
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: Like I said before, the tracks that really stand out for its originality are the most jazzy one's, and "Rise and Shine" really gets the job done on that department, adding some symphonies from jazz saxophone to the generic pace of the post-punk.
Right off the back, it's quite we are presenting with an oppenner that will set the tone for pretty much the full length of the whole album, with a fast paced tune that remind us some bands that began the movements of punk rock in Britain - like The Clash - but with the "uneasiness" of the american bands that dominate the late 70' of the postt-punk scene. "Phantom Eyes" is a nostalgic track being all this said. The album goes on to presenting us pretty good songs with a pint of jazz here and there, which makes up for a really enjoyable record, but a pretty forgettable one also, since most of the tunes on this one sounds like the previous one. In the end, the tracks that really stand out are the one's that runs a little from the conventional sound that the band try to emulate, otherwise, you would shake your head through out this LP without remembering a single title on this.
To summarize, it's a decent album that fells like a long song, with every 3/4 minutes changing a little on it's vibe or pace, which is a shame, because this could have been so much more in terms of experimentations and music growth and so much spicy in terms of the vision and creativity... A shame truly.
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: Like I said before, the tracks that really stand out for its originality are the most jazzy one's, and "Rise and Shine" really gets the job done on that department, adding some symphonies from jazz saxophone to the generic pace of the post-punk.
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