(Flashpoint/Shock)

Wasting no time for the follow-up

In this day and age of touring, marketing and promoting an album for at least two years before getting onto the follow-up, British India, by contrast, have 10 new songs and have elected to release them fairly quickly after last year’s Guillotine long-player. Thieves, co-produced by former Easybeat Harry Vanda, is the noughties equivalent of good, honest meat and potatoes Oz rock, with thumping rhythms, chunky guitars and Declan Melia’s soaring yowl guiding these indie pub anthems.  The album gets down to business straight up, with the punchy God Is Dead (Meet The Kids), beer-and-amphetamine disco rock in This Dance Is Loaded and ringtone populating single I Said I’m Sorry. If the quality doesn’t stay quite so high in the album’s second half (The Aussie-drawled You Will Die And I Will Take Over is merely so-so), the record still manages to come to a strong end with the breakneck-paced Nic The Poet and effectively brooding ballad The Golden Years. With a national tour underway and the usual spots pencilled in (The Corner Hotel, Prince of Wales, The Tivoli, The Metro etc), British India have effectively created an early summer soundtrack.

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MATT THROWER

Comments (1)

1. Written by h, on 23-07-2008 09:25 , IP: 203.171.95.184 British India are my idea of the 'perfect' band: they write some killer tunes that sound as good on the dancefloor as they do when you hear them live, both their debut and sophmore albums are equally impressive and they regularly tour australia! 'Thieves' is one of my favourite albums of 2008, i didn't think anything could beat guillotine but looks like this is definitly a contender!

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