With a strange and at times massively irritating vocal style, The Steeples are a young band that have the potential tag line of ‘future darlings of the NME’ written all over them. With a sound not too dissimilar to that of The Libertines, tracks ‘Britney’s Tears’, ‘Tight Tina’, and ‘Brown Eyes’ here really do very little for me. Already having been given XFM’s Single Of The Week, the lead track ‘Britney’s Tears’ has a sound that is all too familiar and has in my opinion already been done to death before, and for that matter been done a hell of a lot better than it has been done here.
To look at, the band appear to be trying to mimic The Libertines entirely, with lead singer Andy Culshaw at all times trying his utmost to do his best Pete Doherty impression, and a member of the band even featured not too subtly wearing a Libertines t-shirt on the front cover of the CD. Whilst ‘Britney’s Tears’ is all too familiar, as we progress through to second track ‘Tight Tina’, the lyrics are just so awful that it is incredibly difficult to listen to the track without cringing in embarrassment for them. Lyrics seem to be at a minimum and are merely repeated over and over as the track progresses, fast becoming tiresome and highly detestable.
With closing track ‘Brown Eyes’ the band show no signs of improvement and slowly drudge their way through a poorly written track which drags along and never really seems to get going. The vocals at times go completely out of tune, the musical accompaniment is depressingly basic, and all in all ‘Brown Eyes’ is just a song that I would never truly listen to out of choice. The band stumble their way through three tracks on this CD, and although seemingly trying their best to sound like The Libertines; their sound is instead at times more akin to that of Chas & Dave (no offence intended Chas & Dave).
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
