There's a
thin line that very few indie bands can see.
On one
side of it is the rather twee sort of thing that people who wear
spectacles with clear glass in them do.
On the
other side are the bands who know a bit about the stuff that goes on
when the sun goes down.
It's this
way.
If I
mention Keane and Black Rebel Motorcycle club then where would they
naturally settle?
On the
same side of the line?
I don't
think so.
Coldplay
and Glasvegas?
You can
play that all day with your mates now.
Anyway
Stonehouse Violets have definitely got both feet on one side of the
line, and it's not the one that provides girls with boys that they
can take home to meet their parents.
There's a
swaggering style to the music that lifts it from the rut of of the
mundane.
That
slight shading that allows the songs to grab some attention.
Of course
since Oasis nudged every young band in this direction there has been
a million and one of them doing similar, but out of them all there
are really only a handful that can carry the attitude forward and
stamp a bit of their own authority onto the sound.
Stonehouse
Violets are doing that.
There's
probably a bucketful of influences that they are dipping into that
aren't obvious to the ear, but just add enough to bend the sound very
slightly towards them being one of those bands who should be filed
away as 'one to watch'.
Probably
best to catch them now before the self destruct.
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