Envy And Other Sins

Highness

Feb 22, 2008
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Anyone else see Envy & Other Sins begging and pleading Jo Whiley for a record deal on Channel 4’s MobileAct Unsigned and think, “How did it come to this?” Seriously, whatever happened to things like ‘dignity’, ‘rebellion’ and ‘self-re-cocking-spect’? Three decades ago rock’n’roll was gatecrashing the set of Bill Grundy’s Today show and repulsing Middle England in a blur of very naughty words indeed. Now this: indie X Factor desperados peddling 1998-era Britpop (worst year ever) while weeping openly on television for the benefit of Alex James and his Stilton’n’coke-bloated face. Rest in peace, music.

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airguitarsuperstar

Feb 26, 2008

I think the above review is a bit harsh, I thought Envy and Other Sins being re-voted back into MobileAct was unfair to the bands who'd got through every round to get to the final, such as Revenue who were fantastic. But i still found Envy and Other Sins fresh and unique and 'Highness' is a good first single. They're quite melodic and well arranged in terms of songs. Great.

maggie156

Feb 28, 2008

eh...excuse me? revenue were aweful! okay the band in terms of music were very good..but that lead singer was crap! he couldnt even keep in time with his own songs! envy and other sins were brill! highness is a great song! but hijack oskar were amazin! very original!

SweetMaryJane

Feb 28, 2008

The Bad Robots and Hijack Oscar were by far and away the best bands in the comp. Just seen them both on the Barfly tour and they are very very good - lots of good songs - no pretentious attitude. Shame they will have to hide from society long enough to be disassociated with this competition.
Word on 'the street' was that Universal (who ran the comp on the label side) were just trying to recoup marketing spend on EAOS who were previously signed to their subsidiary Loog.... Probably just a vicious rumour - funny though how they sprung back into the comp at the end though......

Problematic Solutions

Mar 22, 2008

Is this not just a tad hypocritical. I seem to recall that in the 'Best Midlands' issue of Radar you were kinder to the band, calling them 'catchy in the extreme, with sweet harmonies, wicked hooks and choruses a-go-go.' I for one find them repulsively bland and beige, yet you the NME have changed your tune somewhat

squishy_boots

Mar 22, 2008

dignity, rebellion, self re-cocking-spect aren't words I would assossiate with a success magazine such as NME either.
However if you write junk like that and call it a 'review' then your parents can't have been proud. 'Mummy! Daddy! I've got something to contribute to the human race, I'm going to work for NME!' Bless.

KCKate

Apr 6, 2008

I'm vaguely irritated but not surprised by that review. We all knew that NME would of course look at HOW the music was brought to our attention, rather than the quality of the music. It's a nice little song, nothing too gritty, but the fact that it was on TV is neither here nor there; lazy journalism, lazy lazy lazy.

Charlee Farlee

Aug 18, 2008

You can't judge a band until you have seen them live - I have and they are brilliant! Very exciting to watch, amazing vocals, brilliant muscians! It's sad that they haven't done better for themselves thus far considering how fun and clever they are with their hooks and lyrics. Shame.