Mazy Fields - Where Sunshine's Sold
0 Comments Published by Colin on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 22:00.
I'll admit to not having heard of Mazy Fields before their CD dropped through my letterbox, but some digging reveals that they're a five-piece from Frankfurt, Germany and this is their debut album, out on Firestation Records.Their press release cites influences like 60s pop and classic indie-pop, so I was hopeful it would be up my street. However the first track, the (almost) titular Where Sunshine's Sold On Markets, didn't fill me with confidence. Instead of classic pop, it brought to mind Babyshambles or any other number of mainstream indie bands that leave me cold.
Things continue in much the same vein for the first half of the album, with everything sounding decidedly more like Kinks-esque 60s rock than anything else. For a German, Christoph Ehrhardt has an uncannily English-sounding voice (and, I suspect, a record collection to match).
The second half of the record is better, and at a push you could say that songs like 'There Goes The Summer' call to mind Saturday Looks Good To Me, but such favourable comparisons are all too rare. Some of the songs towards the end of the album were enjoyable, but not to the extent that I've felt compelled to go back to them.
It's clear that Mazy Fields know their way around a tune, and none of these songs are bad or annoying or made me want to skip them. It's just that I couldn't see myself listening to their record again once I've finished this post. Perhaps my ambivalence is more down to matters of personal taste than of songwriting quality, and if you like 60s British rock or mainstream indie you may well enjoy this. I found it at best pleasant but uninspiring.
Where Sunshine's Sold is out now on Firestation Records.
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