I Remember Tapes
C45 (The Animal Farm)
I remember tapes too. They were rubbish.
The band from Winchester aren’t a great deal better, and their vision is equally as obselete. They label themselves a mash up of Duran Duran, Roxy Music and the Smiths, and this evokes grandiose self-importance that is woefully unsubstantiated from the first note of ‘All I know’.
It’s no more than a Futureheads B-side, dialling in repitition of the title for the duration of the tune, followed by the lyric, ‘There’s thousands of people, at my front door’, which is unlikely to be a problem ever faced by I Remember Tapes.
It’s impossible to hear second track ‘Indecisive’ and not immediately think of The Ordinary Boys, which is about as welcome a comparison as looking at your girlfriend and thinking of Susan Boyle. Frontman Tom Ferry harbours a similar drawl to that thing known as Preston, the type which wastes no time in becoming a distinct turn off. I Remember Tapes are likely to be consigned to history alongside Betamax.
Donny
