- Label
- Neapolitan
- Release date
- 15th June 2009
- Genre
- Pop
- Buy this album
- Order CD
Who are these masked men? Synth-poppers, that’s who!
Liverpool four-piece the Wave Machines are best known for performing their live gigs behind identity-concealing masks but there is more to them than attention-grabbing gimmicks.
This debut album is an uneven yet ideas-heavy smorgasbord of musical initiatives and influences. The disco-friendly I Go I Go I Go suggests Calvin Harris or Hot Chip at their most mercurial, Keep The Lights On could be a melancholic Mika and Punk Spirit could be, of all things, a Scouse Beck.
Singer Tim Bruzon’s keening falsetto is an acquired taste and could prove a Marmite factor that divides listeners and there are points where Wave Machines’ contrarily skew-whiff rhythms and clever-clever lyrics grate.
Yet as a debut statement, Wave If You’re Really There is strong – now we just need to know what kind of musicians really lurk behind those masks...
More to try:
Hot Chip: Made In The Dark,br>
Beck: Mutations
Modern English: After The Snow
