Signed Papercuts
Of my heart b/w Sound of silence pt. 2 7"
Cloudberry Records
Of all of Cloudberry's recent Scandinavian 7" releases, this is the only one where I thought the band wasn't quite ready for primetime, or perhaps better suited to one the label's CDr releases. Good instincts, but the band's driving, tweepop jangle ends up on the wrong side of stiff except on the all-too-brief moments they decide to cut loose and get loud. See: the coda of a-side "Of my heart" and the chorus of "Sound of silence pt. 2"; everything else sounds like a band having trouble keeping it together. Hard to pinpoint exactly where they go wrong, but the mix certainly isn't working in their favor with the drums sounding like they belong on a different record. Not a keeper.
- Avi Roig
