The Mary Onettes
Lost EP
Labrador
It's kind of ironic that the track which follows the Mary Onettes EP on my iTunes is "Primary", taken from The Cure's singles collection. Reason being that The Mary Onettes are another Swedish band painfully indebted to 80s English indie. It seems to be my luck right now that everything I review somehow falls into this genre. On the lead track "Lost", with its driving drums and cathartic vocal style, the band sound a hell of a lot like fellow Swedes Silverbullit. However, if you bear in mind that one of Silverbullit's main influences is Joy Division, I think you can see where The Mary Onettes are coming from. "Explosions" is pure Jesus and Mary Chain circa "Psychocandy". It's simple drumming, lolloping pace and vocals make it a close cousin of "Just like candy". What is a great shame about a lot of these 80s English influenced indie bands is that if they would have come out at the turn of the millennium, I could imagine some of them having some crossover success within the UK.
- Nick Levine