The Envy Corps release their new album Dwell on Mercury on 28th April, preceded by the single Story Problem a week before.Lead track Wires & Wool is a car-crash of a song, colliding elements of Radiohead, Guillemots and some long-lost Britpop also-ran all present. Amazingly despite this and maybe because of its brashness it works remarkably well. Sylvia (The Beekeeper) takes T Rex’s Debra, beefs it up and renews the lyrics so they’re about Sylvia Plath. Crazy and in your face, but you’re unable to ignore it.
The amount the singer can sound like Thom Yorke is shown again on Keys To Good Living. It’s as if the man himself took over the job of fronting Death Cab For Cutie, as it’s a brittle, twinkling tune until the explosive climax. Rhinemaidens shudders like some expansive indie from the nineties and Before The Gold Rush is a grandiose shanty. 99, 100 is very wide reaching, eighties like in it’s airbrushed beauty, a little MOR, but still very good. Story Problem is a terrace chant along and you can see why it’s been chosen as the single and then Baby Teeth sees the singer going all Rufus Wainwright on us, all mumbly and dramatic.
It’s a strange old album, all over the shop musically but still somehow rather assured of itself. And because of that it works pretty well.
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