Review - Element “Fox”
CD demo
After
Music Reviews posts a CD review
on the internet, we send it on for addition to a couple of community radio
programs around Sydney. One of the programs to which we used to contribute returned
the favour by giving us CDs to review that they’d received for addition. Element “Fox” came to
the office courtesy of that program but the inner-sleeve info on the band is
very limited: suffice is to say that there are five of them in the band and the
drummer is the contact person.
So
to the CD: three tracks. Two of them in the same vein as Tea Party or Sydney dark-rock
outfit Jigsaw, and they like a 5-6 minute descending-three-chords
basis (given that two of the three songs are performed like this); the third, Pig,
closes the single with a shorter rock-effort in a more up-tempo and some more
and different chords.
If
after you have listened to a CD from a band and you still find yourself asking
about them, that CD has failed. I see that Element like things
heavy, dark and not-too-short, but it may be that the CD was a recording early
in their career and they felt they needed to get something out: best to have waited
until you had more to offer, guys. It’s the production standards that saved
this outing! If they could come up with more of a repertoire for their next
outing, I’ll be a happier music writer.
Element “Fox” CD demo: not broad or deep enough musically