Moneybrother
They're building walls around us CDS
Burning Heart Records
I really want to like this, I would love to say that I'm crazy about it and that it's an even better song than "Reconsider me" (the first single from Moneybrother's last album - a song so good I would rank it as one of my top five songs from the last five years), but this up-tempo number just doesn't do the trick for me. Furthermore, there's something about it that unfortunately makes me think of nothing but crappy TV series from the 80s when I hear it. It's a bit of shame really, since I'm a massive Moneybrother fan, and really looking forward to his forthcoming album (out in March). Fortunately the second song on the single, "Bum fuxxed (For sure)" (great title, by the way), with its reliable Moneybrother sound that involves fine falsetto singing and great backing vocals, is good enough to stop me from thinking that Moneybrother has "lost it" and become a parody of themselves. But the single itself just tries too hard to be catchy and energetic. Frankly, it's just a bit too much and it gives me a sickly feeling similar to the one I get when I talk to crazy drunk people when I'm sober. That said, I bet I would really like the song when drunk (something that's not too hard to test, of course, but since I'm in no mood to get drunk right now you just have to stick with my assumption).
- Simon Tagestam