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2 out of 10
'Infectious' , 'polished', 'electrifying' - just a dribble of adjectives from the bumph for Hertfordshire's Sunflies. However, their latest release sounds about as 'electrifying' as rubbing your head with a balloon. Lead man James Scott wanted a 'raw' recording, apparently, with '90% of what you hear.from the original first take'. Well, he certainly got that. Trouble is, 'raw' does not always equate with 'electrifying'. Often it can simply mean 'rushed' or 'a bunch of talented kids knocking something up in Daddy's studio', as is the case with Coping Strategies.
Everything sounds very earnest but hideously twee, from the groove-less music to the Hammer-lite backing vocals (that's 'Hammer' the British film-makers, by the way, not 'Hammer' the religious berk with gold pantaloons who didn't want you to touch anything). Any lyrical complexity is lost in the hasty, homebrew mix. Others' comparisons with Placebo and Arcade Fire are, frankly, risible - a band overdosing on snakebite-and-black and late-period Jesus Jones would be more apt. Sunflies are destined for a career playing mid-week gigs at University bars and more afternoon support slots to ex-members of the Wonder Stuff unless they buck their ideas up.
Listen: www.myspace.com/sunfliesband
Tracklist:
1. Sticks and Stones
2. High Times
3. Too Late For Hate
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