- Artist
- The Hedrons
- Label
- Measured
- Release date
- 5th February 2007
- Genre
- Rock
If the beauty of quiet happiness is in limiting your aspirations, then the majority of straight-ahead rock bands around must be asphyxiating on their own laughter - mostly all the way to the bank. Take Foo Fighters, Green Day, Feeder and a whole host of our biggest rock outfits - all content to pay homage to their heroes, make a right old reverential racket and not much else.
Which is perhaps why, in the current climate, disturbingly ordinary Glasgow rock four-piece The Hedrons are feeling very pleased with themselves indeed. Their relentless touring of the nation's toilets, ploughing their sub-L7 pub rock, as well as the release of three singles, has seen the NME and Kerrang go all frothy mouthed. Could it be because they're, like, four girls playing real instruments? Surely not.
It can't be much to do with the twelve offerings showcased on this debut album. One of those singles, Heatseeker, kicks things off with a verse melody ripped straight off from Supersonic by Oasis, other single I Need You is essentially Passenger by The Stooges while the rest of the album, ambles pleasantly, but inoffensively by in a fuzz of dearth of melodies, uninspiring riffs and derivative 4/4 rhythms. Singer Tippi (is the misspelling of Hedren intentional?), while undoubtedly a good singer, struggles to deliver the dirty rasp the music surely demands, meaning The Hedrons stray more into Busted (Busty, perhaps?) territory, without the tunes, mind, than they probably intended. As long as they're happy, though, eh?
