Reading that first track ‘Compassion on the Dance Floor’ was nominated in 2008 for Best International Alternative Song at the Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards, and that second track ‘Fashion Slave’ was a Semi-Finalist in the Rock/Indie category at the UK Songwriting Contest 2008, I therefore had high hopes for this three track offering from Italian three-piece The Medullary Paralysis, listening to these three tracks however has left me feeling seriously underwhelmed.
‘We Don’t Drink, We Don’t Take Drugs, We Don’t Have Sex, We Feel Compassion’ promised so much on paper, and the band’s website even tells me that “You have an out-of-body experience when we mix The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson. And Tears for Fears too. Indie industrial glam on the dance floor.” The EP, despite its promise, is really quite disappointing however, and I just have to say that I really don’t get it. Perhaps it’s a case that this band is just a little bit too different for my liking, I’m not really sure, what I am sure of however is that this record just fails to really impress me. There’s some reasonable industrial edge, although there are some positives to be taken when listening to each individual component of the music separately however, the tracks taken as a whole just don’t really work for me.
There are obviously people out there that are rather fond of The Medullary Paralysis, and hence the awards nominations that the tracks have received; I’m not one of those people though, and this is not a band that I have any interest in hearing again in the future.
Label: Bandcamp
Release Date: November 16th 2009
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.