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Love Outside AndromedaLove Outside Andromeda Remote Control/Shock Beneath the bold red exterior of this album lies an Australian album that packs a mighty punch. Hot off of the success of their subtle, comparatively sensitive 'Something White And Sigmund' EP last year, Melbourne rockers Love Outside Andromeda have returned with a meaty rock debut full-length. The results speak for themselves. By now you have probably heard the absolutely rockin' first single Gonna Try To Be A Girl, an AC/DC style power-chord thriller that sets up the lyrical theme running through the whole album. Opener Tongue Like A Tether, already a live favourite, is a corker, an exemplary sample of singer Sianna Lee's attitude and vocal personality. Made Of Broken Glass is a rocker with a groove, and Boxcutter, Baby brings back all that was brilliant about the '...Sigmund' EP with its acoustic introduction and great bass-driven vibe, sprinkled with Lee's unpredictable melodies and lyrical confessions. ...Sigmund appears next, perhaps unnecessarily (the album stands up quite well without needing the previous single), moving through to the tribal beat of personal favourite Your Baby, My Blood. The album then returns to the delicate musicality of the EP with the tom-tom-driven brilliance of Hecate Pose, the folk-rock of Chameleon, the electric fingerpicking of Juno, and the acoustic storytelling of If You Really Want So Little From Me. In the middle of all this, some blazing rock takes its reprise in another live favourite, Improper Methods, and the thrilling finale, Achilles (All 3). This album's only drawback is its lyrical similarities - Lee's penchant for writing fuck-off songs is superb, but all this anger is perhaps a little unnerving. Sometimes she makes me feel like it's me she's yelling and swearing at - and I don't think I deserve that, do you?  |
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