Review
Do You Like Rock Music?
Release Date: 01/09/2008 12:00
Reviewed by Jon Dolan
Do any bands make albums as poorly lit as British Sea Power’s? The best song on the Brighton band’s 2003 debut was a weepy booze ballad called “Blackout,” and their 2005 follow-up had a tune about a tormented Antarctic ice shelf. Hitler Youth, Orwellian patriots and a lousy 2007 (“a pitch-black heaven”) haunt album three, recorded partly in a derelict water tower and steeped in the political-apocalyptic side of new wave that produced Joy Division. Swoony singer-guitarist Yan’s doom-Muppet voice hangs between a whisper and a shout, nearly lost in the lupine guitars, sad orphan choirs and goth orchestras. Things get almost crushingly heavy, but he fights through his nightmares like he’s one spastic stab in the dark from flicking on a night light.
Download: “No Lucifer,” “Lights Out for Darker Skies”
Download: “No Lucifer,” “Lights Out for Darker Skies”
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