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3 out of 10
The 1980s were bad enough the first time around but the British music industry needs corpses. The latest to exhume themselves and crawl to the great BMI recycle bin are Artery, from Sheffield. If you're searching for some dictated cred to go with your new day-glo tights and pixie boots, this could well be the band for you. Jarvis likes them. They were at number nine in the Festive Fifty in 1982. What more do you want? They sound like Julian Cope fronting Orange Juice at the bottom of a well. Will that do?
Warbling yelper Mark Gouldthorpe can string an image together - see A Song For All The Lonely People (which said depressives would do well to avoid, since it may tip them over the edge), with its 'come and see the sideshow / there's Death and pink ice-cream'. The title track has some irony with the refrain 'no-one's talking / no-one's thinking / nothing's moving' - of course not, otherwise bands like yours wouldn't be able to make records, would they? The whole makes for more one-two, tick-tock electroplop. As Gouldthorpe asks in Standing Still, 'would it hurt just to put it down? Would it hurt just to let it go?' Probably best not to pick it up in the first place.
Listen: www.myspace.com/arterysheffield
Tracklist:
1. Standing Still
2. A Song For All The Lonely People
3. The Seeds of Youth
4. Who's Afraid of David Lynch?
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