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If It Weren`t For Venetian Blinds It Would Be...

THE REVIEW

"If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds It Would Be Curtains For Us All." Second album from this Boston band, which tours the hardcore circuit of social centers halfway between punk, hardcore, alternative, and metal elements (live they play the cover of "You Shoot Me All Night Long" - AC/DC). The record opens with a masterpiece, "Grace Kelly With Wings," a song of fragile and delicate beauty that at one point erupts, heralded by the verse "and you got those sexy legs!" The rest of the album, however, is still immature. It's hard not to get distracted, and the eclecticism of the influences sometimes gets lost in a generic college pop. "If Marcus Garvey dies, then Marcus Garvey lives," dedicated to Marcus Garvey, founder at the beginning of the century (20th, time flies) of the UNIA, the 'Universal Negro Improvement Association' and the 'Black Star Line' which transported people and goods between Jamaica and the USA, the first example of black entrepreneurship. A precursor to Malcolm X. However, the song is insignificant. 'You won’t be seeing me again' starts acoustically with T Kapp Shettel's voice always balancing between off-key and inadequate, before opening into a storm. "Mess with the Bulls" is played on the offbeats and time changes typical of hardcore, always with the strangely guttural voice. "Dirty Harry and the Thunderbolts" is American college pop, à la Weezer. The rest gets lost among ironic/nonsense/love lyrics and incredibly long titles starting with "if it weren't for Venetian blinds it would be curtains for us all." Great potential but still a so-so album. If they follow the path announced by 'Grace Kelly With Wings' (again: a masterpiece!), the most typically indie song, they will achieve great things.