God this is mince. With an album title like
I’m Invincible! I’m Built Like a Sherman Tank. Somebody Try and Stop Me what exactly was I expecting? Mr Shiraz are a seven piece outfit from Yorkshire and when they’re not driving a combine ’arvester or saying "’eh by gum!", they’re playing lousy aimless ska rock. In a typical example of their bollocks,
q&a melds Fishbone grooves with awful Lost Prophets emo-isms, even down to the wannabe yank vocals. Urgh, made my bowels hurt. Equally,
Company You Keep sounds like an aggressive screamo band jamming with Capdown. Who the fuck would ever want to hear that? Not me, not anyone I know either.
I’ve frankly ran out of steam on this one. All that you need to know is that you’ll find more musical wit, talent and vision in Scatman John’s one trick back catalogue than this parping sludge. Piss.
This lousy album is out now on
Division Records, and Mr Shiraz have a web site that they haven’t bothered to construct yet:
www.mrshiraz.com
