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Dangerpin: In Albumen

This album is dominated by soft whispery vocals over lightly strummed/plucked guitars, in style similar to Belle and Sebastian. Occasionally the band pick up the pace and noise levels a little, but the vocals still remain meandering and often drop away or become obscure just when you think the music is building to a chorus. Travel is a repeated theme in these songs and the album as a whole has the same feel of wandering aimlessly, slightly lost, and uncertain. The energy of a track like Five is gradually lost through too many repetitions of the same, initially interesting, phrasing, whilst Repentance Song goes off on a few too many tangents, adding an extra minute to what should've just been a straight-forward indie pop song. That said - the songs do have potential and are pleasant listening. The worst thing about this release is the sense that the entire thing simply isn't finished and this even extends to the ultra-cheap looking packaging - a colour photo-copy cover with a bad little computerised graphic of the band in the middle of a blank white page, accompanied by a photocopied lyric sheet with faded tiny text. This band clearly have talent but need to try a bit harder to illustrate it.

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