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Album Review

The Cave Singers
Welcome Joy Matador Records

Article written by Ged M - Sep 16, 2009

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The Cave Singers: Welcome Joy
It’s odd how children of the 80s seem to praise Fleetwood Mac so highly, as this press release does. Those with a slightly longer horizon know how shallowly MOR they really were. Maybe the publicist means to damn the Cave Singers with faint praise. There’s something quite disappointing about the follow up to Invitation Songs - for a band formed from three hardcore/ post-punk bands, the sound is a bit too light and fluffy, apart from when they’re echoing the folkier moments of Led Zeppelin (‘Welcome Joy’). Some songs have quite tangential folk-inflections – soft-edged on ‘Summer Light’, harmony-filled on ‘Townships’ - but generally it’s a retro sort of light rock, especially on the choogling 70s pop of ‘I Don’t Mind’, while Pete Quirk’s voice has an gratingly hoarse tone. ‘Beach House’ is the best of a so-so lot, it’s smooth pop harmonies transforming into an autumnal post-rock swelling/ falling pattern, but on the whole it’s a bit too light and airy to satisfy any musical hunger.

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