Review –
Cradlemint self-titled
Independent
album
Mark
Stuart Crocker
seems to be the basis of this east Melburnian three-piece with a penchant for
heavy/pop music in the same vein as Smashing
Pumpkins.
On most of these songs Mark
comes
over all Billy
Corgan quite
a lot but the music is familiar yet original and on 15 tracks – remarkable in
itself for an independent review – there’s quite a mix of genres and influences
in this record but I’d have to say the Pumpkins stand out as the most
influential.
Cradlemint are not backward in coming forward either,
with very strong lyrics (hence the parental guidance sticker) and titles like Suck On This (a latter-day Death On Two Legs but holding
much less back). A good debut, all up, but I’d like to see the band live or
listen to their other music before making any statements like “the next best
thing”, although that is definitely on the cards if they’re backed and/or
noticed
(Written 1996; resurrected by MSC; amended
July 2000)