Spoonfork
"All is Well" CD
Gourmé
Genre: rock, indie rock, garage
rock revival
July 3 2008 |
Taking a cue from the wily rock acrobatics of The Arctic Monkeys,
Swedish duo Spoonfork play exciting and bounding guitar music with
decent pop appeal. The compositions are frequently loaded with starts
and stops and louds and softs, with the all-important vocals meeting
halfway between the confident blare of Alex Turner and the
unflappable cool of Julian Casablancas. It's good fun, but as
was true of the Arctic Monkeys' efforts, over ten songs (all
but two of which pass the four minute mark) the rock fervour can
become a tad much.
Another knock on this duo is that,
oftentimes, their songs don't seem to go anywhere or tie together
properly. Although exceptions like fiery "From the F" and parts of "Bustin' Heads for Dr. Death" manage to stitch themselves into
cohesive songs, other
tracks don't fare so well. "Continuum" starts promisingly but
becomes too disjointed, and confusing "The Undertaker" has no reason
to be over nine minutes long.
All this energy is not entirely misplaced, however. I could see
Spoonfork being a really fun live act, and moments on All Is
Well show where the promise lies - still,
however, some time in the slow-cooker is
definitely needed.
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Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 10 tracks,
53:53, distributed by
the
label,
released 2008] |