Strasbourg based 1984 should really have named themselves after a year or two earlier as the influences evident on this record clearly come from around 1980/81. Cache Cache is their début single for Weekender Records and sounds like Joy Division if they Scottish and releasing records on Postcard Records. A French Franz Ferdinand really! It's everything a single should be with it's catchy riffs and upbeat chorus. On this evidence I see no reason to put this lot in Room 101.
Staying on Weekender Records is Nitasha Jackson whose début for the label is her cover of The Maccabees track First Love. Jackson, according to her biography, started to study music at the age of five and wrote her first song before she was six years old! It's a bit of a departure for Weekender whose roster generally comprises of rock bands. Jackson's vocals are sublime and the track is transformed into haunting piano ballad and the pattern is repeated with her own composition on the flip side. However I am not sure what audience the track is aimed at or why Weekender are releasing it unless they are trying to escape being pigeon-holed. A brave move in more ways than one.
Sadly it's back to The Raid who sound like they are backing NME's vision of a bland UK rock scene populated by corporate bands coming off the conveyor belt two to the dozen with We Know Best. With a title like that it would be way easy to retaliate but the record is best ignored unless you are sadly misguided and think music like this is cool, alternative and radical.
1984 and Nitasha Jackson's records are due for release on 11th February 2008 on Weekender Records. As for The Raid who knows and who cares.
Staying on Weekender Records is Nitasha Jackson whose début for the label is her cover of The Maccabees track First Love. Jackson, according to her biography, started to study music at the age of five and wrote her first song before she was six years old! It's a bit of a departure for Weekender whose roster generally comprises of rock bands. Jackson's vocals are sublime and the track is transformed into haunting piano ballad and the pattern is repeated with her own composition on the flip side. However I am not sure what audience the track is aimed at or why Weekender are releasing it unless they are trying to escape being pigeon-holed. A brave move in more ways than one.
Sadly it's back to The Raid who sound like they are backing NME's vision of a bland UK rock scene populated by corporate bands coming off the conveyor belt two to the dozen with We Know Best. With a title like that it would be way easy to retaliate but the record is best ignored unless you are sadly misguided and think music like this is cool, alternative and radical.
1984 and Nitasha Jackson's records are due for release on 11th February 2008 on Weekender Records. As for The Raid who knows and who cares.
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