Review – F.U.L.L. “Coffee”
It was 1994 through the second of a series of
compilation records called “Shades Of Perth” that we first heard from a
three-piece Westralian Rock outfit called F.U.L.L. The contribution
thereto was fairly typical of the other rock offerings on those CDs and we
thought nothing more of it until we received an e-mail recently from Chris Gibbs,
and soon after, the full back-catalogue from the band.
“Coffee” is the band’s first collaboration and the
opening track What? has shades of that contribution (as well as Kiss’s Strutter) until Chris’s Eddie Vedder-styled
vocals and Pearl
Jamesque backing vox kick in. From there the distance between that
1994 track and what came out of the “Coffee” sessions grows with each
track. It travels through some Stone
Temple Pilots turf with a short stop during Live In The Now
in Tumbleweed
territory, and culminating with the Epic (Faith
No More) styled epic Slow Heavy Frank: unusually early in
their career for such a song but nothing was lost with this venture!
While there has been significant change and
growth from that “Shades of Perth” contribution two years prior, we can
but anticipate what lies ahead on the following discs! “Coffee” stands
out from 1996 as an excellent debut and we more than look forward to hearing
more of this thing they call F.U.L.L.!