June 21, 2002
Seafood/Jetplane Landing : Pleasurehead/What The Argument Has Changed
Unless you are Steve Lamacq or a lunatic, you will rather chew on a tinker’s truss...
With Fischerspooner[/url] steaming up pop’s windows with their sexy flam-glam cabaret and Mars Volta being mad and jazzy with their mad-jazz magnificence, it’s a wonder this sort of inconsequential, ambition-free indie arse still goes on. But goes on (and on and, indeed, on) it evidently does, like a suppurating rash that smells, suspiciously, like 1994. The two Seafood songs sound exactly like Seafood songs always sound (Sonic Youth falling asleep, slowly) while Jetplane Landing’s "efforts" are a bit rockier, like a GVSB fan being pelted with gravel by irritable toddlers. Unless you are Steve Lamacq or a lunatic, you will rather chew on a tinker’s truss than have anything to do with this appalling record.
Sarah Dempster
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