ALBUM REVIEW: Wetdog
- Posted on July 9, 2008 10:22 AM
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Wetdog
“Enterprise Reversal”
Release 21st July
Review by Matt Killeen
I had high hopes for this. A white label CD with 21 tracks on it has connotations of the Ramones or Napalm Death about it. I’m not too disappointed.
It’s a noisy punky slice of nonsense, the likes of which we’ve heard many times before but will always have a little space for. The vocalist has a lovely crazy lilt to her voice somewhere between the Selecter’s Pauline Black and Bow Wow Wow’s Annabella Lwin. However, it does become tedious over the course of the CD. There are no dynamics, no melody and every time I want it to rise to another level it just stops.
The sleeve notes claim that their ‘skeletal punk clatter doesn’t really sound like anything else around’. Possibly if you are 16 and you don’t have a large record collection then maybe, just maybe you might think this is totally new.
What this stuff can be is easy, too easy, to produce in large quantities. The challenge for these guys will be whether they can actually construct a pop song from this cutesy anarchy to elevate themselves above the countless bands that sound / have sounded like this. It isn’t, after all, like they’re writing Shakespeare or curing cancer here. If they don’t, they will have a short career playing small rooms to crowds of dozens like many bands before them who were better than this. Is that what they really want?
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