Remember The Pigeon Detectives? You know the ones? They were a spangly dancey pop rock band that some people called “indie” for a short while. They sort of sung badly, but it was all part of the charm layered between layers of noisy, frenetic, frantic guitars and catchy choruses that could cause the dancefloors of 2007 to erupt with guitar music.
Ladies and gentlemen. The Vertigos have arrived, and four years too late.
Rubix, for all its jingle and jangle, is an upbeat, catchy number, designed to get bums off seats despite the fact the vocalist Matt Taylor can’t sing a single note remotely in tune. It would have been absolutely huge a few years ago. It would have been a massive festival anthem. You know, the kind where people wander back to their tents in a daze going “Oh My God, Did you see THAT?” Beer would have been flying everywhere.
So, what can the second song, 'Saint', do on this single? Well, the track can make them not sound like 2007 Pigeon Detectives anymore, and make them sound a lot more mature, a lot more subtle and a lot more boring. It’s got everything you need to make a bog standard rock ballad with the quiet verse, the crescendo into the big chorus, then the grand finale before the track fizzes out to nothing.
Honestly, it’s not that anything on these two songs is exceptionally bad. Both would pass a practical music exam. Both are very listenable. The opener is catchy and the closer is emotive, but neither are doing anything remotely new or particularly interesting. They’re a bit like a nice cup of tea you’ve been waiting all day for but you forgot to put the sugar in and now it’s still a cup of tea, but it’s just missing that vital flavour.
So long story short: The Vertigos have written two fairly good indie rock songs that people will undoubtedly think someone else has already done.
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