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Imagine if Coldplay and Placebo decided to have
a baby...ok, ok, so it is obviously not al all possible, (although I'm
sure Brain Molko might want to give it a try), but just imagine they
did....
JJ72 are basically the sounds of Coldplay spliced with Placebo..and maybe
a bit of Smashing Pumpkins thrown in as well for good measure. Their
self-titled debut album "JJ72" has made quite the impact with
three successful singles so far - 'Oxygen', 'October Swimmer' and 'Snow'.
This is one of those albums you buy for the one or two songs which have
been released. You listen to them over and over again, only
listening to the first few seconds of the other lesser known tracks,
before discarding them for crap. You put the singles back on repeat,
listen to them over and over and over again until they are the only thing
rattling about in your otherwise hollow cranium, and before you know it
you have gone completely insane and feel like a demented poodle chasing
it's puffy, beautifully groomed tail. So, you take out the CD, throw it in
the corner and forget about it.
A week or two later you decide to hoover, (or in my case, once in every
millennia - my carpet is to dust mites what Israel is to the Jews, Canaan
to the Israelites, River Ganges to the Hindus - you get the picture), so
anyway, you find this dusty CD, play it, and are so physically exhausted
after the battle with the hoover that moving you finger to press a tiny
little button would certainly require too much energy. So the album
is listened to in its entirety because you are a fat, lazy ass.
You discover that the other songs aren't as crap as you previously
believed and lo and behold, they actually grow on you.
On this album, the 3 singles are still my firm favourites, but 'Not Like
You' and 'Long Way South' are slowly worming their way in....
At the minute, JJ72 are filling the shoes of Travis and Coldplay as the
new guitar act on the scene, although maybe not to the same extent as
their predecessors. It's hard to tell whether or not this success
will last, but I'm guessing that they might just be around to see my next
hoovering session.
So go ahead, get the album and eliminate some dust mites.
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