Review: Johnny Foreigner - Certain Songs Are Cursed EP
This EP comes on the back of a frisbee, which is an argument for the continued production of physical music if I’ve ever heard one, but lets not get into that.
It seems reasonable to judge ‘Certain Songs Are Cursed’ as a precursor to JoFo album 3, due later in the year. It appears to cover most of the bases the band have covered throughout their career. Both ‘What Drummers Get’ and ‘Twin Sisterzz’ are reminicient of the noise-pop of their first two full lengths, and are up to sratch quality-wise as well. The second two tracks touch on the quieter side of the bands backcatalog, with the “cursed version” of ‘Johnny Foreigner Vs You’ being close to 199x and ‘Certain Songs’ is closer to the slow ones from last years You Thought You Saw… EP, both of which are rather beautiful for the most part.
‘Certain Songs’ is both the best and worst thing about this EP. It outlines the bands project for this album, to get fans to write and record their own speeches about what music or certain songs mean to them, that will then become part of the record. It is a wonderful idea, however, the vocal sample that makes it onto this EP is a let down. It is a reading of the speech posted on the bands blog to outline the idea behind the project, and, simply put, it is spoken badly; putting a down on the end of an otherwise rather great EP.
8.2/10.
Sean Collison
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