In many ways, you can't help thinking HAVEN are one of those bands who've missed the boat and don't even realise it.
By this, I mean their windswept guitar pop comes in as pleasantly Doves-lite, and "Wouldn't Change A Thing" - produced with grim inevitability by Johnny Marr - is actually one of their better efforts, with pleasantly chiming guitars and mannered, wistful vocals. Trouble is, besides getting steady airplay and probably clocking in towards the low-end of the ever-fickle charts briefly before slipping back into obscurity in time for the band to play another tour of almost-full clubs, there doesn't seem a lot of point to this kind of thing now that Britpop has disappeared off into ancient history.
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No doubt that actually-not-very-awaited second album will appear shortly, everybody will forget Haven were hyped the first time round and just sort of shrug with indifference. Sounds cold? Maybe, but that's the way of an increasingly apathetic world just now, and however 'nice' and 'well-crafted' a song like "Wouldn't Change A Thing" is, it sadly also ultimately shoots itself in the foot with its' own title. Sorry lads.
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