Thee Spivs
– The Crowds and the Sounds (Damaged Goods)
Eleven tracks in 31 minutes, Thee Spivs don’t hang
around, which is only right and proper, as they’re a punk band at heart, even
if much of their sound owes a debt to pub rock outfits like Eddie and the Hot
Rods and Count Bishops.
Previous records (“The Crowds and the Sounds” is
their third long-player) have drawn praise from big-hitters such as Mojo, BBC,
Paul Lester at The Guardian and Stewart Lee at The Sunday Times, so it’s
perhaps surprising that they’ve yet to do the business, audience and sales
wise. Still, they’re hardly cutting edge, envelopes are not being pushed and
barriers have remained resolutely unbroken down. A cult following probably
beckons - which is no bad thing, at all.
They kick things off with “Social Network”, and
although I’m generally anti songs about modern technological phenomena, here
they get away with it thanks to their “On the social… network” refrain, which
makes it sound almost dole related - and that’s as it should be. “Forget It” is
better, it’s power pop roots exposed by some enthusiastic backing “ooh oohs”
and both the title track and “Lets Talk About The Weather” will get elderly Dan
Treacy fans sobbing nostalgically into their bitter shandys.
Rob F.
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