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Rating: They come from Genoa, The Banshee, they have been playing together since 2000 and with this first work they want to show us how good they are at cut & paste of all that English sound ranging from the Strokes (to whom they owe a good part of their image) to the Hives (from whom they take all the skewed and fake out-of-tune sound) and apparently the highlight of their career has been being mentioned in NME for I don't know what.
The 10-track album released by Suiteside flows uniformly without highs or lows in songs with the standard radio three-minute length. Indeed, you feel like you're listening to something that resembles the Hives and yet no, it’s the Banshee, and suddenly you realize that a completely copied personality band makes no sense to exist if it doesn't have at least a smash hit. 10 tracks album finished, do they have the hit? No. And it's not even that well recorded, I fiddle too many times with the stereo system's volumes to get a good idea of all the instruments, the mixing unfortunately doesn't help.
It seems pointless to go into detail song by song about the album, by the third listen I still can't find any sound moment that could have particular appeal or even just one of those catchy choruses that could make some indie-fool fall in love but I find no noteworthy elements. The Banshee sound just like "some indie band that resembles this but are these others with the right look who played at that festival before those others, do you know who I'm talking about?"
I conclude with the tracklist, just for the record:
1 Talking on the Phone
2 So Long
3 Games People Play
4 Holiday Drink
5 Candy Cane Guy
6 City
7 Maybe Baby
8 Pictures Moving
9 Why Not
10 Panic at the Party
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