Clarietta

Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs (bit of a mouthful guys!) have been compared, very rightly, to Velvet Underground and others of their ilk. That will be the reason for their (hopeful!) success; there are plenty of people who want this sort of music to continue being made, and not only people who were around for the initial wave. If I'm honest, I can hear a little bit of BritPop in there too at times. It's the polished version of punk, the sound that grew out of New York while Brits in London were almost too angry to do anything like that. And OK, they might not have an especially 'original' sound, but that's not a bad thing when they do it so well. It's a sound that we're all familiar with, all guitar and drums and a self-assured drawl that almost isn't following a melody. There isn't a lot to write about this kind of music that isn't just comparing it to other bands that have gone before - although the comparisons aren't disparaging.

It fits very nicely into the rest of my music collection; although I have now listened to it several times it sounds automatically like an old friend I hadn't listened to in a while, in a good way. For a very new band, this is a full length album that sounds like a band that knows its sound, but when you're drawing on influences with such a distinct sound, then maybe it's easier. Whatever it is, A+.