New Music - Mother And The Addicts
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This Glasgow band have their second album released this month and from what I've heard it joins a growing number of releases which reflect an 80's influence, from the track below you will hear the echoes of Joy Division, The Smiths plus a hint of the more "pop" orientated bands of the time, all together very pleasant if not greatly influential or original, but there sure is an awful lot worse around.
Mother And The Addicts are a cussedly independent bunch: by boldly sticking to their guns and appealing to their own musical sensibilities first, they have succeeded in making an album that is both effortlessly appealing and invigoratingly fresh. An emphatic lesson in how to take musical influences and create something vital, “Science Fiction Illustrated” barrels across decades of dance floors without ever losing sight of the here and now. Mother And The Addicts deal in delicious eccentricity and it’s their joyful lack of convention that should be lauded in a time of threadbare radio-fodder – just don’t confuse it with a lack of substance…
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