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Pluto: Pipeline Under the Ocean

I didn’t want to go overboard here, but I need to vent my adoration. While Pluto’s 2001 debut ‘Redlightsyndrome’ made an impact, ‘Pipeline Under The Ocean’ is destined for much greater achievement. This is a fantastic album; eight tracks of unsurpassable songwriting splendour. Opening track Radio Crimes is an addictively rhythmic ode to commerciality, Eight O’Clock is endearingly delicate and Perfectly Evil simply explodes in a murky fit of defiance. Finale Broken Hearted is a country-flavoured gem and Long White Cross is quite simply, a sexy piece of perfection... my new favourite song of all time. But then, this is a band capable of musical mastery. Pluto have taken three years and at least a couple of attempts to record a ‘band’ album and it seems have mastered their art (perhaps through many a bottle of absinthe). Proof that if you’re really good at what you do, then it is worth sticking at it through the lean and lonely times. This is not just rock’n’roll. This is art, baby, art.

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