Review – mav
triple-a side
single through
Global Savile
Melbourne’s
music scene just gets more and more alluring with each CD I receive through the
Website. The latest release comes
from jingly-pop Brighton East-based mav, where power
meets jingle in a fresh but familiar and accessible Pop muse.
The vehicle for one Michael Fenemore-Cocks, mav seems to have picked up where TOSAW left off, adding some early-70s pop to the early-90s Melbourne sound with a late-90s/early 00s retrospection. Amelia starts with a folk/acoustic feel and some almost psychedelic 60-70s effects in the same vein as those other female-name songs (Elizabeth, Julie-Anne, Jennifer and Julia to show my age) adding more and more as the song travels. Velvet tilts at U2’s Beautiful Day whilst retaining the earlier 90s perspective of the previous decades’ styles. Slides Away is a combination of the 90s/00s power-pop alterna-ballad as the third of the triple-A sides, all of which would sit comfortably on new-music or alternative-music programs or stations.
Her Majesty’s rounds off the offering with an
electronica-Royal Flourish, which might be used by more adventurous producers
in advertisements of a kind! Overall, we will be hearing more from and about mav if we haven’t
already!