SINGLE REVIEW Keith - Up In The Clouds
- Posted on October 10, 2008 12:42 PM
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Keith
Up In The Clouds
Release date: 27th October
Review by Oli Simpson
Keith boast surely the indiest, most forgettable and least Googlable name of all time. So how do they compensate? With a riotous slice of axe-waving’, ear-splitting’, tit-tearin’, church-burnin’ noise Metal from the darkest corners of Hades? No, by being from Manchester and sounding a bit like Oasis covering Kasabian. Still, its not all bad news, there’s a little funky bridge in the middle as well as a hip-shimmying solo which ensures that ‘Up In The Clouds’ equals more than the sum of its parts, building to a sinuous groove and piercing guitar squall.
But if it’s difficult to love a band like Keith, it’s equally difficult to hate them; all the usual scattergun riffs and spittle-flecked lyrics are here in abundance and if you’re the sort who owns every Shed Seven single and wept when The Verve reformed you'll have a grand old time. ‘Up In The Clouds’ may be a fair reflection of Keith’s forthcoming sophomore album ‘Vice & Virtue’, but B-Side ‘Welcome To My Fairground’ hints at an emergent, and far more interesting, big country psychdelia sound that comes on like Gomez fronting up to The Coral in a wind tunnel. Good stuff.
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