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TambalaneTambalane Eleven/EMI Some might be tempted to wonder if this band would get on radio if Ben Gillies from Silverchair wasn't one of its founding members. Well, to be fair, the music does speak for itself. The tunes-most of which are based upon piano or funky early 70s organ-are lighthearted, pleasant and inoffensive, the choruses are big and catchy, and everything sounds like something you've heard before but you just can't place it. If you were to throw together The Beatles, Billy Joel, and Travis you might get close, and as a result songs like Free, Sail, Become, All Wounds Heal, and Just My Luck must surely be hits. In short, Tambalane's stock-in-trade is the sort of middle-of-the-road pop that is just perfect fodder for commercial radio - and perhaps TV commercials, too (I can hear Free, for example, being used to help extol the virtues of tampons or luxury cars), or as soundtracks for whacky sitcoms (the cheesy Dreammaker sounds suspiciously like the theme from 'Cheers') and remakes of bad 80s teen moves (Livin' On The Upside, Skywalk ["gonna take a skywalk / in New York"... hmmm]). Whatever the medium, Tambalane are adept at crafting songs that will appeal to people for whom Ben Gillies and Silverchair are the sort of boys one wouldn't take home to mum.  |
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