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3 out of 10
What is a mini album? I've heard of a single, an E.P. and a full album, but a mini album? The answer is at the end of this review.
From reading the press release about this band, I was told to crank up my speakers, get ready for a band that is going to take me back to the lad-rock heyday of 90's Britpop. If I think back to those days, I think of Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene, Blur and even the worst of the scene, Menswear. Now I have been given the task (And it is a task) to listen to Envisage, five West Ham loving guys from the multi cultural east end of London.
Unfortunately, Envisage are not even in the same lower league as the aforementioned Menswear.
The first track 'Seven Wonders' plods along as slow as the M25 at 8 o'clock on a Monday morning. My son can play a guitar better than what has been laid down here, and my son is only four years old.
'She Tells Me' grated my insides like fingernails down a chalkboard. I can't even say that the progression of the tracks became more interesting, the only thing the tracks did do is become more up-tempo the further I got into the CD, which was better because it helped me feel like I was getting to the end quicker.
Envisage call themselves 'Rock Dudes' and ask the listener into their world with the track 'Welcome To My Generation' where 'rock and roll is their occupation'. If this is true, then they must be on the bread line living rent free in a squat.
Since listening to this, I now know what a mini album is, it's for those people who can only turn out the same child playing guitar boring out of tune vocals and drag it out over nine tracks, and if it did go on for more than a mini albums worth the listener might have switched it off and gone to watch paint dry, so at least they have done one thing right.
Listen: www.myspace.com/eastlondonenvisage
Tracklist:
1. Seven Wonders
2. You Got Me Goin'
3. She Tells Me
4. Rock Dudes
5. Awesome Feeling
6. A Welcome To My Generation
7. You Make It Seem So Easy
8. My Friend Tony
9. From The East End
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