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Review: 'Suris'
'Leap'   

-  Label: '[Interion] / Nova'
-  Genre: 'Eighties' -  Release Date: 'May/July 2015'-  Catalogue No: 'Interion401'

Our Rating:

Oh good grief is there really a revival of this kind of awful middle of the road boring as all hell dinner party wallpaper music. The fact that the press release claims they should be compared to Kate Bush and Nina Simone as well as Japan and Fleetwood Mac was warning sign enough but nothing prepared me for how much I hate this record.

From opener Riverman no not the Nick Drake classic but a Fleetwood Mac at their most saccharine and sappy yes Lindsey may have an ok voice but it's instantly forgettable. Leap will make you want to leap out of a window in the hope of getting away from the blandness of it all. They slow things down to a crawl for Armour Of Love a woebegone love song that is cringe making lyrically and only just about saved by some decent piano but there is nowhere near enough of the piano.

No surprise that the best song on the album is a cover of Jimmy Webb's Do What You Gotta Do that works by being totally stripped back and as basic as can be piano led ballad this is the only song on the album I'd say is worth checking out especially for the bits where she sounds a bit like a bargain bin Alison Moyet.

Things then take a turn for the worse when they go for the worst 80's sounds imaginable on This Is the City the sort of song that would have been vomit inducing in the 80's and now is even worse for being a third hand reworking of sounds that were crap first time round. Scaur Bank just compounds it sounding like they want to be the new Jennifer Rush crossed with Enya it's just dreadful.

Absolute Zero takes us further into the 80's musical wilderness I just want it to stop. Ghost is a slow song to an ex-lover and well it thinks it's ethereal rather than woebegone. Glacier Blue asks if she'll love again well only if you're looking for fops and wimps with a song like this. Last Fish In The Sea will See her left there as no one wants this kind of whining over mid 80's background music that Prefab Sprout would have rejected as being far too wimpy for them.

Crows is more wistful wimpy third rate Blow Monkeys bland wallpaper. The album closes with A Whine and A Whistle and I've done plenty of whining about how much I hate this album and no whistling. This record is not for me and frankly I have no idea who would want a record like this but just in case you want to check it out you can find out more at www.suris.uk
  author: simonovitch

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