
All Red Cables: Who Let the Drunk Sing
By Kent Walsdorf
He is one prolific music veteran is Andrew Spittle, managing to turn out an impressive 18 albums under the guise Dating Godot, and now racking up more as All Red Cables. Such turnaround must come at a price and while there are moments of musical brilliance here there are patches that aren’t so. Mend was a definite highlight, good ol’ alternative rock with a big sound and a killer riff. Then a shift into melancholic piano angst performance with a touching vocal to finish the album nicely. The rest of the songs involve fuzzing guitars, live and programmed drums, quiet acoustic ballads and a vocal experience that is reminiscent of the old Dunedin attitude. Some more TLC with the song structures wouldn’t have hurt and in a production sense it was a little confusing. Was that a low-fi album being made high-fi or a high-fi album not quite getting there? That said, all round a good one man album.
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