Album review: Film School
Film School
Hideout
Label: Beggars Banquet
Release date: 5th November 2007
Website: www.filmschoolmusic.com
Rating: 4 out of 5
Ok, let me get this off my chest first. My Bloody Valentine. Ride. Swervedriver.
Phew. That felt good. Now that we’ve invoked the gods of nineties shoegaze, we can proceed.
California’s Film School hark back to a simpler age of indie, of vision-obscuring fringes and effects pedals.
Hideout, their second album proper, is an interesting and arresting album that offers much in the way of tempting indie sounds but, it has to be said, does nothing to propel indie forward into new waters. Futurist they are not.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with retro-ism. Hell, Oasis have made a career out of it. And when someone does it well, as Film School have done, it can be a delight. A revelation, even.
The whirling dream pop of Dear Me and the psychedelic stomp of the delightfully titled Sick Hipster Nursed By A Suicide Girl are both highlights that wouldn’t be out of place on any credible indie playlist.
Lectric’s frenetic back-beat propels a whip-sharp rhythm that will have them frugging and shuffling on dark indie dancefloors the world over. Two Kinds is nothing less than beautiful.
A surprising delight of an album. Let yourself be suffused in its beauty, then go dig out Loveless and Nowhere. You’ll be glad you did.
Hideout
Label: Beggars Banquet
Release date: 5th November 2007
Website: www.filmschoolmusic.com
Rating: 4 out of 5
Ok, let me get this off my chest first. My Bloody Valentine. Ride. Swervedriver.
Phew. That felt good. Now that we’ve invoked the gods of nineties shoegaze, we can proceed.
California’s Film School hark back to a simpler age of indie, of vision-obscuring fringes and effects pedals.
Hideout, their second album proper, is an interesting and arresting album that offers much in the way of tempting indie sounds but, it has to be said, does nothing to propel indie forward into new waters. Futurist they are not.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with retro-ism. Hell, Oasis have made a career out of it. And when someone does it well, as Film School have done, it can be a delight. A revelation, even.
The whirling dream pop of Dear Me and the psychedelic stomp of the delightfully titled Sick Hipster Nursed By A Suicide Girl are both highlights that wouldn’t be out of place on any credible indie playlist.
Lectric’s frenetic back-beat propels a whip-sharp rhythm that will have them frugging and shuffling on dark indie dancefloors the world over. Two Kinds is nothing less than beautiful.
A surprising delight of an album. Let yourself be suffused in its beauty, then go dig out Loveless and Nowhere. You’ll be glad you did.
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