ASSEMBLY NOW - Graphs, Maps & Trees/Calculate"
This two track CD from unsigned London based four piece, Assembly Now, will be released on 6th August and they describe themselves as, the sound of "Roy Orbison, Brian Wilson and Girls Aloud, while David Bowie has a nonchalant cigarette in the corner". Mmmmm, not quite, but I see where they're coming from. They have been in existence for eighteen months and opening song, "Graphs, Maps & Trees", is a jaunty Mockney voiced social pastiche reminiscent of early Blur as they tell how, "Down at the zoo the animals are getting restless" in finest Damon Albarn style. Clocking in at 3 minutes and 21 seconds this is a delicious slice of hook laden indie pop while second track, "Calculate" is an absorbing mesh of guitars and moodiness; much less a pop song and more a dense brooding piece of miserablism, but deliciously enjoyable nonetheless. The two songs are vastly different and, being the perverse sod that I am, I much prefer the darkness of, "Calculate", although the title track is much more commercially viable.
Colin Dunn
Colin Dunn
