| Electric Soft Parade - No Reason To Be Downhearted
The Electric Soft Parade’s No Reason To Be Downhearted feels like a pastiche of British rock from the late eighties to the turn of the millennium. A little Britpop here, some shoe gaze there and a little jangle of post punk and you’re ready to go.
They’ve been around for a while now have ESP, this is their third record but they still merely resemble JUST another middling Brit guitar outfit, which can’t be said for Brakes who they also play in, I dig their rural take on the Pixies.
This heady mix of Oasis and My Bloody Valentine offers few thrills but the odd gem. If That’s the Case, Then I Don’t Know is funky goth pop whilst Life In The Backseat is a soft rush. The quiter material suffers from being nothing special, Woken By A Kiss just goes on and on.
Electric Soft Parade aren’t rubbish but they don’t really offer anything different to what already existed on a Doves record. Sturdy and dependable like a cheap cheese sandwich, and a little dull all the same.
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