0015. Ride
Nowhere

Heh, the label "shoegazer pop" has always made me chuckle a bit cuse of the images it conjures up: a group of skinny teens who're so afraid of their audience they'd rather just stare down at the floor...

However, as my associations aren't always what's defines the world I press play and this is what I get: Seagull, the first track, is slow, harmonious vocals over grinding guitars (a bit like the madchester sound) and gets me pretty stoked, thinking if the rest of the album's like this it'll be a keeper.

Then the second track, Kaleidoscope, shows a bit less of the grinding and a more jangly sound, but still kind of good and I get a little bit anxious.

Then comes some Morrissey-sounding crap of In A Different Place and the album falls flat on its face.

The last two thirds of the album's a far cry from what the two first songs delivered as it sounds more like a Smiths-coverband (well, based on what little Smiths / Morrissey I've heard) than musicians in ther own right. Paralysed almost saves itself in the verses, but blows it miserably in the chorus...

The only reason I'd make this a "must hear"-album is the fact that the crowd-noice in Paralysed is sound taken from riots right outside their studio.