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2 out of 10
Sorry to start off on a sour note, but who the hell mastered Winch House's single "Sweet Taste Of Summer"? They need a good shoeing.
When the press release stated "With favourable comparisons to bands like Mayday Parade, All Time Low, Taking Back Sunday and Four Year Strong" I thought I was onto a real winner here, one of those little gems that crop up every now and again, you know, the ones where you've never heard of the band, not even the name and suddenly you hear their music and you fall in love?! I was unfortunately horribly horribly wrong.
Back to my original point, I listen to all my music for reviewing on my stereo next to my desk where my computer is, it holds 5 CDs at a time and generally I listen to them all at the same volume (Between 52 - 46 for those of you with a Panasonic SA-PM28!), but with Winch House I have to have it at a volume that for all other CDs would mean my entire street could hear what I was listening to! So to whoever mastered this CD, do your job and make the music a normal level next time please.
I'm afraid the complaints don't end there. Hailing from Haverfordwest in Wales (I checked this on Google just to make sure) lead singer Alex has one of those terrible homogonous American-lite drawls that we can all do if we put on a silly voice, it just sounds forced, fake and really annoying. You remember the former singer of Halifax, Mike Hunau? Well he was from California so you could forgive his accent in his singing most of the time, but for Winch House it's just unacceptable.
The songs themselves as if you couldn't guess from all the previous band names littered throughout this review are slap bang in the middle of the pop-punk genre. The press release's claim to favourable comparisons to those bands mentioned earlier really is taking something away from those acts as Winch House pale in comparrison.
The A-side to this single "Sweet Taste Of Summer" has one thing I enjoy about it, and that's the Windows noises at the beginning and end, but nothing saves B-side "We're Breaking Away" which is truly dreadful and is the appitome of what everyone thinks pop-punk sounds like and why it gets such a bad name!
Listen: www.myspace.com/winchhouse
Tracklist:
1. Sweet Taste Of Summer
2. We're Breaking Away
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