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I
really wanna like this more than I do. Unfortunately,
Isolation sounds like an uninspired album, one where
songwriting comes only second to lack of inspiration and
perhaps, beer and other types of entertainment.
Isolation
seems filled with songs bearing the trademark disheveled garage
punk sound this excellent label is getting known for. Thus far,
we are all good. Prospects are building. And sonically at least,
Le Face are as lo fi and sloppy as they need to be. Their
raggedy guitars are strummed in beginner’s level fashion. A
clear lack of artifices (effects, and the likes) reveals Le
Face’s blunt and sincere approach. It’s a throwback to the good
ol’ days of early garage punk when all that was needed was the
intention and whatever piece of crap instrument you could get a
hold of. The same principle still applies, except Isolation
doesn’t have the charm of those early gems.
Instead what
we get is mostly shapeless songs with not a ring to ‘em. There
are just variations of one guitar strum. Occasionally those
guitars are played faster, other time they are played slower.
The funny thing is that is all there; the songs just don’t come
together. “Manic Depressive” is as good as it gets, a driven
rhythm is pounded into submission. The same for “Salvador
Dali”, one of those punk songs you’d swear to have heard before,
only played by several other bands.
The vocals
have almost the same fuzz of the guitars and much trace of
distinction gets lost there. Bu this is not all bad. I actually
had a great time reading the press clip that came with the
album. Le Face counts members of Mika Miko and Fault Lines
amongst their members. Apparently, it was hassle to get
Isolation recorded because three quarters of the band have
been charged with DUI’s and they couldn’t come to the sessions
and oh yeah, the band’s ‘total disregard for scene drama (ie.
I’ll suck you, if you fudge me’) leaves them operating almost
exclusively on their own little world.’ Yep, I had fun
reading it, but you wouldn’t get those bits of fun just by
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