A Camp
By Andy Reilly • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: long playersA Camp will never be considered more than the bit on the side of Nina Persson but they are more like the original sound of The Cardigans than The Cardigans are now.
A Camp will never be considered more than the bit on the side of Nina Persson but they are more like the original sound of The Cardigans than The Cardigans are now.
There’s a time for subtlety and there’s a time for no nonsense and this double mix-CD by Herve is easily in the latter category.
“It was Saturday night in a town without a curfew” and if there has been a better opening line of an album in recent months send it this way.
Its fair to say that jazz tinged poetry albums rarely make this reviewers top 1000 records of the year so receiving ‘Backra Man’ by Morley Hayden Haines has certainly came in from the left-field.
Combining so many different musical elements that people say just aren’t cool is no barrier to success and The Secret Machines should be considered a perfect embodiment of this.