CD review
Published Date:
20 July 2008
By CS
MELEE
Devils & Angels **
Hopeless Records / Sub City 9362499174, £9.99
The opening 'Built To Last' with its gently cascading piano, flatters to deceive with a melody that would get the nod of approval from New Radicals' Gregg Alexander, but from there on in it dissolves irretrievably into a pile of MOR gloop.
At the band's most frivolous – 'Frequently Baby (She's Just A Teenage Maniac)' – Melee are more to be pitied than scorned, but 'Can't Hold On' is such a litany of pop clichés it is hard to feel anything but a hatred dormant since REO Speedwagon last troubled the chart.
Download this: Built To Last, Rhythm Of The Rain
The full article contains 113 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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Last Updated:
19 July 2008 1:15 PM
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Source:
Scotland On Sunday
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Location:
Scotland
