Perennial underachievers South are back with their fourth album, this time on Genepool Records. To me they’ve always been one of those bands plugging along churning out tepid songs to no one in particular.But I head into You Are Here with an open mind. Opening track Waster sounds like its being dragged along the grey streets of London to an almost certain death. This sets the tone for Opened Up but the whimsical Lilac Time style tunes Better Things and The Pain turn things around somewhat. Tell Me continues the album in a chirpy, if somewhat wishy-washy vein but She’s Half Crazy is a bizarre volte-face, being insipid white boy funk.
Almost as strangely There Goes Your Life is an odd kind of electro-funk. The problem is at this stage of the album the production appears to have gone to pot and everything sounds muddy. Even mariachi trumpet bursts can’t really save Lonely Highs. Sound Receivers starts with a low filthy riff and employs it from time to time in an effort to sound like Weezer. This it achieves, if Weezer were stuck in a cupboard.
Every Light Has Blown is a whimsical, meandering lullaby and Zither Song tinkles along like a snow swept winter scene but neither are enough to rescue the shambolic album.
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