Review - Window Boxes
independent EP
Window Box is a four-piece quiet-rock outfit hailing
from the affluent Hills District of Sydney’s Northwest. Six tracks comprise
their self-titled EP, which includes a cover of Nina
Simone’s Don’t Explain
and a live-at-the-Castle-Hill-Tavern
recording of their own Velvet Skies
which seems not to have gone down too well, unless they edited the response out
of the end of the track.
There are a number of familiar sounds on the
EP, including the faltering vocal style of Fischer Z, some prog-rock tempo-experiments,
a venture up Stone
Roses avenue and, it seems, the same influences as other local acts
rAINhOUSE
and Ash
Wednesday. They even come over a little Roberta
Flack during the aforementioned Nina
Simone interpretation, and somewhat beatnik in Wrong.
Definitely one of the worst experiences of my
reviewing year.. I actually found myself wanting either to turn the CD off or
wait for it to finish. I opted for the former during their mineret-wailing Nusrat Fata Ali Khan to the Everybody Wants to Rule The Word Tears
For Fears beat and Alan
Ginsberg spoken-word. This is definitely not my cuppa, but if I had
to (and only if I had to) I’d choose Slow
Parade as a stand out.