Monday 9 January 2012

Various Cruelties - Great Unknown

Happy New Year to you all.  I hope 2012 is a good one for you.  So far, good new music releases have been few and far between but I want to start somewhere so here we have the latest offering by Leeds/London band Various Cruelties called Great Unknown  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LzWMiAHpvc  from their forthcoming self-titled debut album.

Despite high praise being lavished on this band, I find it leaves me somewhat unmoved.  It serves it's purpose as a pleasant indie pop song, but I don't expect I will be dashing out to buy a whole album of the stuff.  Surfing through the net for details of their background it appears they haven't been playing together as a band for too long anyway (just over a year) and frontman Liam O'Donnell admits to it having been a bit of a whirlwind.  Still, they have crammed quite a lot into this first year (the above appearance on Later, festivals, supporting Noah and the Whale and Villagers) so maybe they are doing their growing in public.  It will be interesting to see whether they are still around in a year's time.

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