Showing posts with label Modern English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern English. Show all posts
Thursday, July 15, 2021
The 1981 Listening Post - Modern English - Mesh & Lace
Modern English - Mesh & Lace
#125
April 6 1981
Modern English
Mesh & Lace
2.5 out of 5
Before they melted with us, Modern English was a 4AD band that didn’t make much of a mark, apparently.
I accidentally started listening to the CD version of this record which opens with “Gathering Dust”, a metro trip of swelling guitars and synth sounds. I loved it.
And then the rest of the album kicked in…
And I’m not sure what I would have thought if I was a “I Melt With You” fan who decided to go back into the band’s catalog and I heard this opening track “16 Days” with it’s static and Joy Division drums. It seems designed to make you either hate it or grab some Mollie to enjoy it. But there wasn’t; Mollie back then, was there?
This has all the markings of a group trying to figure out what it wants to be while fervently declaring itself vital to the scene.
But, also, super boring.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/mesh-lace/1452734695
Friday, January 25, 2019
The 1984 Listening Post - Modern English - Ricochet Days
Modern English - Ricochet Days
#38
February 27 1984
Modern English
Ricochet Days
3 out of 5
Highlights:
Spinning Me Round
Hand Across the Sea
Omg how many of these bands were there?
Ok. That internal venting is out of the way.
I actually kind of enjoyed After the Snow. It wasn’t great. It was fine. Had that big hit. This is the sound of trying to recreate that hit. And they alllllmost get there. (“Spinning Me Round”) But each song falls just short and into an abyss of forgettability. Too bad. I think these guys might’ve had one more in them.
Oh, well.
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