Belvedere Jehosophat - Tuesday, 6 April, 2004 - Print Version
It's a sad state of affairs when the only redeeming quality of an album is the colourful picture of the rhinoceros on the cover.
The Future Kings of Spain wear their influences proudly; it’s not hard to pick out the Pixies or Dinosaur Jr in their songs. However, while the Future Kings of Spain are on their way to recreating the signature sound of those bands, they’ve completely missed the streak of experimentation and daring that made them seminal.
This, then, is where the Future Kings of Spain debut falls flat on its face - once we isolate the handful of good songs, once we’ve smiled our nostalgic smiles, we’re left with a good seven or eight different variations of the same boring song.
Instead of getting this, you might want to track down the music by the bands which inspired the Future Kings of Spain in the first place.
Originally written for Jet magazine and limited to 150 words.
Also, the rhinoceros looked like this:
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