Chris Glithero on vocals and bass, Paul Frost on guitar and Ollie Midleton on drums are having yet another go at Zeppelin-designed , AC/DC turbo-charged, Spinal Tap-wrecked, whisky soaked denim guitar rock. With , ostensibly some recent association with Tool and Queens of the Stone Age, which (personally) I can't hear in this track. Formulaic as a GCSE history of contemporary music project, everything has been written by the teachers, with just the authenticity of the occasional spelling mistake and lack of fluency thrown in by the young contenders to avoid disqualification for plagiarism. This facet could be marked up as “garage” and Mudhoney could be invoked as character witnesses. But it would be a last resort..
They are the first indie rock band called ZICO CHAIN who have ever made an unembarrassed cod rock song called Anaemia, so there will be some takers. But when the format has been so comprehensively stripped bare over so many decades a quite good approximation to the average is really the last thing anyone needs. However badly they want GUNS N' ROSES back
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There is nothing in this that could be called original or distinctive. It isn’t even terrible. The lateness of this review seems fitting for a single that is 20 years away from its sell-by date. Parody, pastiche, affectionate tribute,post-modern irony? All the excuses have all dried up and there's no technical wizardry to prop up the corpse for even one last hobble round the mortuary.
Songs from THE ZICO CHAIN's "Food" album , sent out with the single promo offer no threat of deviation or hesitation. Just repetition. The myspace site offers a little more rowdiness.
ww.myspace.com/zicochain
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