by Oliver on January 20, 2024 in EP
Robert Sr.’s grandson Indio Downey has been sober and clean for almost two years, and deals with this fact on his debut EP Cigarettes in Bed. But that doesn’t make things any more exciting.
After all, the 5 numbers of the compiled 16 minutes sound as an entertainingly entertaining song collection, as if an artificial intelligence had calculated a formula based on a competent modular principle, using which the singer-songwriter-pop-alt-rock of the early 00s was in the wake of Pete Yorn, Ryan Adams and Co. can be reproduced.
Cigarettes in Bed works with harmless templates of well-known off-the-shelf goods, is structurally very simple and one-dimensional, takes no risks and refuses to use its own style in its eclecticism, but is talented enough to rely on a superficial catchiness (primarily in the choruses that are always repeated too often). to be able to set, even if it is easily forgotten in the medium term.
The title track has a nice singalong in the verse before the super generic “Yeah, Yeah“-Entry into the chorus on the amplifier. Plastic Rainbow uses a shaking 90s as a highlightNirvana-Twang to be more suitable for the hook Puddle of Mudd-Grunge revival to squint, and that tired September fails because of it, a casual one Weezer-Schunkler: it all seems a bit textbook-like, too flawlessly intentional and strained by Indio Downey. No matter whether the format radio consensus Meanwhile more synthetically designed, more open to modern pop trends or The Other Side tries to increase the animating sing-along factor and, in addition to tame guitars, an annoying “uh, yeah, yeah, yeah“-to create a mood.
Cigarettes in Bed In this respect, it offers absolutely solid craftsmanship, and also some really nice melodies with pleasing catchy potential, that is undisputed – which probably makes the following review seem worse than the record actually is. Without any corners, edges or scratches, the result is simply boring with an interchangeable harmlessness over the always recognizable potential (which then also ensures a more benevolent perspective on the EP).
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