Patience Please - Fleeting Frequencies
0 Comments Published by Tom on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 11:14.
I get the impression that, like a 100 metre sprinter, Patience Please are flying right out of the starting blocks on their début album Fleeting Frequencies. But, like an unfortunate athlete before them, they pull up and struggle to reach the finishing line.As previously mentioned the band gets off to a great start. Blue Line, You're It and I Quit are powerful power pop songs that pack a punch. There is no time to pause as the songs fly out of the speakers thick & fast being catchy, infectious, tuneful and fun. But then the songs start to lose their way becoming clumsy and awkward. Songs like Exclusively Windermere and The Way She Looked Away get bogged down and despite their best efforts the band doesn't recover with only Science Credits reaching the heady heights of the album's opening. Even with short running time of 30 minutes it sounds like the band is trying just a bit too hard and it becomes somewhat derivative with interest being hard to maintain.
If they cut it down by four or five tracks Fleeting Frequencies would have been a stand out EP as there are some great songs on here. It's a shame the rest are poor imitations.
Fleeting Frequencies is out on Happy Birthday To Me Records.
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