Annie Stevenson. The name is familiar, right enough and, if memory serves, this Glasgow band had a decent EP out a while back. I hold this album up to the light and it looks like the same band even if they seem to have forgotten how to smile.
Fortunately for my ears – and yours should you take the sonic plunge – this self titled album is far from unhappy affair. In fact, I can see these songs forming the start of a beautiful relationship for those who take the plunge and listen. One thing is for certain – you won’t get bored easily with Annie Stevenson. Even when simulating indie rock in “Get Off The Street”, they throw surprises in with the power chords and even prove themselves capable of no small amount of post punk humour in the wry “Boydie”. After that, it’s an easy conclusion to reach that musical skill is not in short supply here and said skills soon get adapted to the task of getting an audience to wave its collective lighters in the air (“Someone Else”) or to stand in the shadows of Paul Weller (“15 Dogs Pour Down”).
Probably the oddest thing about this album, however, is how little thought seems to have gone into its presentation as the songs are pretty much thrown together without regard to rhyme or reason. On the other hand, I suppose that it is no worse in that respect than your average greatest hits type album and, as if to further develop the metaphor, it is also abundantly clear that there is more than enough potential hits here to justify such an album.
I can’t wait for quality to come back in fashion just so this band can become as big as they deserve to be.
Bluesbunny
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