The Music - 'The Spike'
I spy with my little eye, something beginning with 'F' (and ending with 'lame war'). It seems the video for this song has set off a shower of YouTube angst because the computer animation isn't really up to much, and because it parodies the '80s geekflick Tron. I say parodies because the motorbikes in Tron travelled along gridlines and never, ever, turned corners in a wide arc like they do here. These details are important (to people who have nothing better to think about) and they are concerned that the band's comeback album is being undermined by shoddy promotion.
(The comments can be found , but be warned, they are extremely sweary at times, as you'd expect.)
If I'm honest, this kind of passionate storm in a teacup is very useful indeed, because the thought of having to describe another song by the Music was keeping me up nights. If you've heard any of their other songs, any of the up-tempo rave-Zeppelin ones at any rate, you will have a pretty good idea of what this sounds like. That's right, it sounds like a ravey version of Led Zeppelin. That is to say, it's sort of hard rock-ish, in a classic, Led Zeppelin kind of way, but has a disco pulse which can only come from having absorbed the influence of dance music. It's dance-metal, with a helium banshee on vocals. It's blimming RAVE-ZEPPELIN, OK??
Can you see why this causes reviewers such problems? There's no new way of describing the same basic sound. And even though the lyrics make a bit more sense now, and the band play with the same fire as always, and they've polished everything up a bit, there's still not all that much difference between 'The Spike' and 'Take The Long Road And Walk It', except it's a bit less mad.
One for the fans then, once they've calmed down a bit.
Download: Out now
CD Released: August 11th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Oh, before you go, you HAVE to read this review of the Music's album 'Strength In Numbers' on the . And then the comments underneath. Again, it's a bit sweary, but it's worth it.
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