Album Review

The Good The Bad - From 018 to 033The Good The Bad – From 018 to 033

This Danish 3 piece has – considering the current scene- produced something that I thought was solely destined to be written for games and movies. They’ve taken your stereotypical Australian surf music and integrated some really slick Spanish flamenco techniques into it. There are many strange things about this album; one of which is the fact the track names are numbers from 18 – 33 and another is that there are no lead vocals to speak of, just group harmonies every once in a while.

The concept is simple enough and when you listen to the first song “019”after the 18 second intro track it’s clear that the band have put a lot of thought and consideration into piecing together their material. It flows through as smooth as a summers breeze, so much so that due to the short song times and the fact they all follow through to the following song without stopping it’s hard to even tell that it isn’t 1 continuous song. “031” is one of my favourites here because it starts with an evil tone and then spirals off into this dirty rock infused surf flamenco with a woman having an orgasm every so often, shows the sheer distance they could take their music.

They use the woman orgasm a lot during the second half of the album, why I don’t know but it seems to fit well actually. I’ve listened to the entire album front to back numerous times on numerous different occasions; I do begin to wonder how the hell they would perform this live. I suppose that give a bit of mystery to intrigue people into attending their shows but for me I can only picture these guys playing at a restaurant in Spain accompanying tourists eating their dinner. The reason I think this is that the music gives them nothing really, how could you perform this on a stage to people and keep them interested? I might find out in the future.

To sum up then, great concept, pretty good execution, and the mystery lies within surrounding a performance. I mean I wouldn’t walk around with my iPod on listening to this kind of thing but then again it’s not really the type of genre I’m interested in, for what they do they are good at it and I think I’ll leave it there.

3/5

Review by James Webb

 Band Members

Adam Olsson
Johan Lei Gellett
Manoj Ramdas
 Track Listing
1. 018
2. 019
3. 020
4. 021
5. 022
6. 023
7. 024
8. 025
9. 026
10. 027
11. 028
12. 029
13. 030
14. 031
15. 032
16. 033
 Band Related Links
The Good The Bad Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?