Bricolage
>> EP
This is proper music. Not proper indie music, or pop music, or rock music; it’s pure and perfectly formed MUSIC: something you don’t often get the chance to listen to these days!
Bricolage has kept things short and sharp on this two-track ep. Opener ‘Footsteps’ - now in the running for my single of the year – is a sharp and perplexingly angular little blighter, it bursts out of the speakers with a sophisticated jollity. The guitars are tripping over themselves with ideas; the lyrics are rye and the rhythm trips along at a merry old rate. Likened to Orange Juice (and in my opinion sharing the sensibilities of Gang of Four and Talking Heads), Bricolage has melody and ingenuity in abundance.
Second track ‘Flowers of Deceit’ maintains the incredibly high standard set by ‘Footsteps’ and there’s no need to say any more than that. When this band inevitably takes the festival scene by storm over the summer it’s the riff from ‘…Deceit’ the punters will be whistling on the way back to the tent.
When this record is released in late June it should be labelled ‘Double A-side’ rather than ‘EP’; it is THAT GOOD.
Bricolage EP is released on June 26th 2006.
>> Russell Moore
www.myspace.com/bricolagetheband
