SINGLE REVIEW: Clocks - All I Can
- Posted on December 19, 2007 4:54 PM
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Clocks
All I Can
Review By Andy Hirst
Despite having been a band together since as early as 2000, when they formed in their home town of Epsom, it has only been in the last couple of years that Clocks have started to hit the music scene to any notable degree. Having recorded their debut single with Liam Watson (The White Stripes, Supergrass, Madness) and releasing their debut single in August last year they attracted the attention of Island records with whom they have recorded their first album.
“All I can”, the first single taken from that album does little to explain what it was about the band that attracted Island records. It starts promisingly enough with driving guitar chords and a retro organ sound reminiscent of the psychedelic dabblings of bands such as Kasabian. However soon enough the over produced poppy nature of the track becomes all too sickeningly clear. There is something of the tail end of the Brit-Pop era about them; however it is all far too dull and unoriginal to make specific comparisons with any of those bands.
The repetitive guitar part drones on incessantly broken only by a three note guitar solo which fails to raise any more intrigue than a wet dishcloth. The singer has neither the lyrical content nor the distinctive voice required to elevate above the countless other indie drones on the gig circuit. Tired sounding rhymes and unimaginative vocal harmonies permeate this track like winter rain leaving me cold and indifferent to the song and whatever its dreary tail of happy clappy romance is supposed to allude to.
To be fair, it isn’t really trying to be anything more than harmless pop, and this it achieves to a reasonable extent and in the infuriating manner of Pop music several listens into it and you will find yourself singing along or bopping your head in a late 90’s stylee. The production is crisp and if this was five years ago I am sure they could have kept a few hundred teenagers entertained as a warm-up act for Supergrass. Who knows, with Supergrasses recent return to the musical limelight perhaps its not too late for them after all.
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