We initially took the listening option. The disc moves from
Black-with-White funk/soul, in the style of Rockmelons,
through bare-boned acoustica to a rock track with a Martin
Luther King sample intro/outro. Stand out tracks from this record include Desire,
with ‘three chords and the truth’ combined with a Queen ("The Works"/"A
Kind of Magic") keyboard sound, and Doctor, which seemed to
lack in depth during the verse, introduced the electrical meat during the
chorus and seemed to have as many as three completely different and disjointed
musical themes throughout.
The overall sound seemed very thin for a funk/soul based muse and the outcome
seems to be of a band that are not completely sure where they’re going at this
point. More information about the band and the songs on the cover is paramount
if you want anyone to take notice or even make enquiries (just a phone number
won’t cut it for most, nowadays), and a little more artwork wouldn’t go astray.
Not a good start