Onto Cajun Dance Party with their debut album called 'The Colourful Life' on XL Records. Great things we're promised... It's nice that I actually get to hear them as the previous singles were all sewn up and we didn't want to ruin one (not many people think of sending us review copies you see...). Listening to this we all think they could be massive. It's polished sounding slightly quirky sounding 'indie rock'. I use the word indie in the loosest of terms as indie isn't indie anymore. I think guitar music would serve better sometimes if it didn't conjure up images of long haired chubby goons masturbating with their cock shaped guitars. This is as good as any of the other 'big indie' that's about these days. Look I'm being all positive... I have to say I did like 'The Next Untouchable' A most decent tune though now I'm most keen on getting me a knob shaped guitar.
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What their label says...
First of two Cajun Dance Party albums to be released in 2008. You
may have heard on the hype grapevine – and back when they first
appeared in late 2005 the hype grapevine was a vociferous, over-excited
beast when it came to the charms of Cajun – that the five
multi-instrumentalist members joined forces for a school Battle Of The
Bands and wrote their debut single, the soaring, crashing ‘The Next
Untouchable’ in their first rehearsal, attracting an archetypical
A&R scramble within weeks. All of which was assisted by the release
of said song – a limited, sold out debut 7” on WayOutWest – before the
band made a significant commitment to new home XL. What really
matters though, is that the nine tracks and 39 minutes of ‘The
Colourful Life’ elevates the five-piece out of the exciting but
limiting confines of the new band explosion and into the stratosphere.
The songs – guitarist Robbie Stern’s music and arrangements propelling
vocalist Daniel Blumburg’s feel-like-fire lyrics and melodies – sound
like the latest addition to a rich musical lineage that stretches back
through Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Portishead and The Smiths – all with an
added hyperkinetic blast. Cajun are as fresh as the buttercups on the
loping, sunshine-dissolved song of the same title. In fact, they’re
fresher. Cajun have found their own unique way to turn their lives
into songs you’ll love forever. As with the music, so with the
practicalities – there’s no standard release album, tour album, take a
break, do-it-all-again grind here: ‘The Colourful Life’ will be
released and will just exist, sit there in the musical firmament
without the distractions of touring or days filled back-to-back with
promo. Instead, they’ll finish their A-Levels, keep rehearsing and head
straight for the studio once school’s out for good to record the second
album, due out in the autumn, which already promises mind-boggling
musical joy.
Other items by Cajun Dance Party
Amylase Cajun Dance Party 7" (vinyl), £4.99 Sorry - sold out.
