Slime - Company
5/10
I love Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis's solo work. I love Burial's Untrue. So, a combination of the two should be right up my alley, right? Erm... 'fraid not. Slime's Company is pleasant enough but this is the kinda stuff I have heard in the kind of over-priced, over-sanitised wine bar that I try desperately to avoid but end up in more often than I would like. Ethereal vocals float from speaker to speaker over glitchy, jazz-inflected mood music. Good for when the insomnia strikes at 3am but, whilst the individual elements are okay, nothing ever really gels into a decent song. There seems to be a million artists doing this sort of thing right now. Slime is far from the worst but nowhere near the best. Local acts Catnip & Claws and Broads both plough similar furrows to better effect.
5/10
Slime – Company
I love Talk Talk singer Mark Hollis's solo work. I love Burial's Untrue. So, a combination of the two should be right up my alley, right? Erm... 'fraid not.
Slime's Company is pleasant enough but this is the kinda stuff I have heard in the kind of over-priced, over-sanitised wine bar that I try desperately to avoid but end up in more often than I would like.
Ethereal vocals float from speaker to speaker over glitchy, jazz-inflected mood music. Good for when the insomnia strikes at 3AM but, whilst the individual elements are okay, nothing ever really gels into a decent song.
There seems to be a million artists doing this sort of thing right now. Slime is far from the worst but nowhere near the best. Local acts Catnip And Claws and Broads both plough similar furrows to better effect.
Pavlis (5/10)
