Napoleon IIIrd – In Debt To (Brainlove Records).
Leeds based Napoleon IIIrd opens with the experimental Introduction To A before leaping into This Is My Call To Arms with its soaring chorus. I detect Julian Cope influences here but then again, I may be completely looking in the wrong direction. Defibrillator has him in the stance of a modern day Paul Weller – that’s how good he can be. However, he can be totally off the wall too as The Conformist Takes It All proves. This is strange stuff with too many things going on at the same time. Beck and Divine Comedy fans will love Guys In Bands and there’s a bit of The Clangers at the end for all the youngsters! Anti-Patria is more conformist and, as a result, is one of the best songs on the album. Hit Schmooze For Me will work its way into your brain and you will be whistling it by the end. Everyone with associate themselves to the line ‘This is not my life, it’s just my day job’. Introduction To B is another experimental instrumental and completely unnecessary. Kate’s Song is acoustic, sparse and almost childlike and What We Have Here Is Ending is almost prophetic as this electronica offering is repetitive almost to the point of undervaluing the song. The Casual Terrorist Vs The International Board Of Wishing is an interesting title and enables him to continue evading a pigeonhole. The only comparison is one of very 80s electro-pop. My Superiority Complex has a Laurie Anderson (O Superman) beginning and some mockney vocals. He ends with One Song Before Bed To Three Four and he rocks things up a bit and goes all grungy.
An album that you will never be able to second guess and that is a talent in itself.
http://www.blogger.com/www.brainloverecords.com
www.myspace.com/boney3
David Blue.
Leeds based Napoleon IIIrd opens with the experimental Introduction To A before leaping into This Is My Call To Arms with its soaring chorus. I detect Julian Cope influences here but then again, I may be completely looking in the wrong direction. Defibrillator has him in the stance of a modern day Paul Weller – that’s how good he can be. However, he can be totally off the wall too as The Conformist Takes It All proves. This is strange stuff with too many things going on at the same time. Beck and Divine Comedy fans will love Guys In Bands and there’s a bit of The Clangers at the end for all the youngsters! Anti-Patria is more conformist and, as a result, is one of the best songs on the album. Hit Schmooze For Me will work its way into your brain and you will be whistling it by the end. Everyone with associate themselves to the line ‘This is not my life, it’s just my day job’. Introduction To B is another experimental instrumental and completely unnecessary. Kate’s Song is acoustic, sparse and almost childlike and What We Have Here Is Ending is almost prophetic as this electronica offering is repetitive almost to the point of undervaluing the song. The Casual Terrorist Vs The International Board Of Wishing is an interesting title and enables him to continue evading a pigeonhole. The only comparison is one of very 80s electro-pop. My Superiority Complex has a Laurie Anderson (O Superman) beginning and some mockney vocals. He ends with One Song Before Bed To Three Four and he rocks things up a bit and goes all grungy.
An album that you will never be able to second guess and that is a talent in itself.
http://www.blogger.com/www.brainloverecords.com
www.myspace.com/boney3
David Blue.
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