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Review: 'Argonaut'
'Try'   

-  Album: 'Try' -  Label: 'Criminal Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '2nd March 2015'

Our Rating:
Big, overdriven guitars crunching out big pop riffs lifted straight from the best bits of The Pixies’ back catalogue provide the backdrop to duelling bubblegum pop female vocals and sardonic male vocals reminiscent of the B52’s Fred Schneider’s. ‘Try’, the band’s second album is brimming with energy, melody and harmony, and while it does very much hark back to key proponents of both the New Wave and 90s alt rock - Sonic Youth, Garbage and Hole are listed among their influences – they’re savvy in their selections of reference points, and moreover, it’s the quality of the material that counts.

‘Seven’ uses that classic descending three-chord sequence that provides the backbone of The Stooges’ ‘I Wanna be Your Dog’, Bauhaus’ ‘Dark Entries’, Slaughter and the Dogs’ ‘Hell in New York’, ‘Elves’ by The Fall (and countless others), and shows that Argonaut have done their homework while imbuing their music with a vibrancy that simply can’t be faked or simply learned.

Argonaut Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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