White Rose Movement
Kick

THE REVIEW

Throw together Depeche, Joy Division, and Duran and you have White Rose Movement from England: now, I'm not saying that the new band is on the same level as the previous three bands (which I adore and definitely don't want to be sacrilegious), but the group knows what it's doing: they say they worked as painters to pay for the album, and you can hear it even on the synth; the band was a supporter of the Placebo for a while.

The first 3 initial songs "Kick", "Girls in back" and "Love is a number" seem to confirm that the band knows how to mix punk and glam and make the guitar and electronics clash and jump on us with the bass and make us all dance again. It suggests that something good is still coming from the U.K. after Placebo & Muse have lost themselves in repetition... plus, the singer has a bit of a cheeky voice which I like...

"Alsatian", "London's mine", and "Idiot crugs" are perhaps a bit repetitive, sure the music is beautiful, but I've already heard it in my new wave idols; however, they still manage to be quite edgy, thanks to the voice of the singer Finn Vine, but sometimes someone needs to dust off the silverware at the new wave house... "Deborah Carne" seems to want to imitate Duran too much, but it's a too difficult game, while "Test card girl" proves to be something good in having studied the lesson and then adding their originality.

As I repeat, it's not a miracle, but certainly something pleasant, especially for the singer's vocality; let's hope they don't turn out to be the usual U.K. enfant prodigy of recent years who ends up repeating themselves or bowing down to commerce...