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THE REVIEW
But why why why, self-proclaimed critics and music journalists, do you so unscrupulously abuse the term "Shoegazer"?...
Dear Debaser readers, the only free and therefore honest oasis in the horrendous landscape of current criticism, today among the new wave of new English bands that infest our local NME-mimicking magazines, and that much more tragically often and willingly plague even our ears, there is a part that among the various "new" something is defined as "new shoegazer." Indeed, it all started with a record anything but insignificant, but not surprisingly coming from Sweden: it was The Radio Dept.'s Lesser Matters, who had the great good taste and intelligence to indeed revisit Shoegazer themes and sounds, but to adapt them to their own very specific and pronounced sensitivity, with a soft and sweetly evocative pop attitude, which marvelously adapted and complemented the reverberating distortions that Kevin Shields made us love.
Among the current new shoegazer, however, such Boxer Rebellion emerged not long ago... I obviously won't tell you about the acclamations and daring comparisons! ...but we veteran lovers of '80s '90s psychedelia aren't fooled... Boxer Rebellion are in reality nothing more than a squalid band lacking backbone, whose possible descriptions are:
1) either a band too immature launched into the firmament of new revelations way too soon, as someone sniffed a possible business.
2) or a group totally devoid of talent and personality, that exploits the marvelous work of others attempting to pass it off as a citation, desperately trying to spice up otherwise unremarkable music characterized by an outrageously Brit pop sensitivity, pretentious and useless, presumptuously grandiose, banal, flat, boring, and highly derivative... I am not joking when I say that listening to this record it sounds like a demo, even one you would dismiss with a diplomatic "guys, you need to improve"... please critics and journalists, stop abusing the word Shoegazer!
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This review harshly criticizes Boxer Rebellion's album Exits, arguing it is a shallow and derivative work falsely labeled as shoegaze. The reviewer accuses the band of lacking talent and personality, comparing them unfavorably to pioneers like Kevin Shields and the Radio Dept. The album is described as pretentious, boring, and immature, sounding more like an unfinished demo than a polished record.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
04 Watermelon (03:26)
Inside I was restless
Left awake to the clocks
Outside wailing helpless
Ridden out by the locks
Inside, outside, inside your love
Inside, outside, inside your love
You said you want diamonds
Well I think you'll like pearls
And you said you want cigarettes
Well I think I want girls
Inside, outside, inside your love
Inside, outside, inside your love
Come on
Music is the life man
Music is the life man
It cries and cries and feels so nice
Music is the life man
Music is the life man
It cries and cries and feels so nice
I think I've found
I think I've found
I think I've found you out
I think I've found
I think I've found
I think I've found you out
Inside, outside, inside your love
Inside, outside, inside your love
Inside
The Boxer Rebellion
English indie rock band formed in 2001, known for albums including Exits (2005), Union (2009), The Cold Still (2011) and Ocean by Ocean (2016).01 Reviews
