Marshall
Chipped loves REM - well pre megastardom IRS years REM for definite –
and this admiration simply can't be ignored.
From the
opening line the shadow of the boys from Georgia looms large
throughout, and while I would love to be able to say that there are
points on the album that the music shakes loose from its influences
that's not really the case.
Even when
the ouvre of electronica is explored it sounds like an experimental
b-side by Stipe and co.
Not that
this is to say that Statues is a bad album.
Far from
it in fact.
It has a
firm grasp of a certain sound from the eighties and manages to make
it sound fresher than it has any right to, plus the song writing
manages to pull it up by the bootstraps allowing it to reach for some
badly needed identity of its own
Personally
I would rather hear the material stripped down and played
acoustically, but that's just me.
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