Album Review: Mystery Jets
- Posted on March 10, 2008 12:19 PM
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Mystery Jets
Twenty One
Review by Holly Groom
Twenty One sounds like a band coming of age and indulging in a young, playful nature simultaneously. It’s a cleaner, simpler record than 'Making Dens' – less erratic and less prog-rock. It has the right components to be one of those 'albums of the summer' that the NME will start caterwauling on about in a couple of month’s time.
There is something less serious about it - it sounds like an eighties pop record, like something you can dance to (actually dance, not just pathetic-indie-shuffle.) At some points it sounds like The Cure, sometimes Michael Jackson, sometimes Blake sounds almost like Jeff Buckley. It sounds like exactly like what it is – boys who have spent some time working with a mentor but who now have the freedom to mess about and act their age a bit (the band are now touring without Blake's father Henry.)
The record combines a youthful lack of complication with a more mature conviction in their ideas – its as though they have reached an age where they can gleefully embrace eighties pop music and strip their songs back to a more basic, more confident state. This may well have had been the influence of the band's new producer and DJ demi-god Erol Alkan.
Twenty One is a much sweeter record than 'Making Dens' – it has a simplicity that enhances the swinging melodies and unpretentious, dancey feel. It’s a more accessible, all-embracing album and it feels like the Mystery Jets are joking around and having fun in exactly the manner that twenty-one-year-old talented musicians should.
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