Welcome to the second in the series of Mosh’s Face The Jury where we will pick a random bunch of tracks from some of the emails which we are sent and send them across to a random selection of our staff. We then let you know our thoughts and whether they are pretty damn amazing, or just pretty awful.
Have we scraped the bottom of the musical bucket or is there some hidden talent buried? Let’s take a listen to this weeks selection. It’s time to face the jury!
Sam Duckworth- Only A Fool
Mitch Emery: How very Jazzy this is. Funky Horns and smooth guitar lines, fused with lots of vocal harmonies, create what is a very pretty sounding piece of singer/songwriter pleasantry. The lack of dynamics makes the track drag on a little, but otherwise, there is very little to dislike here. Inoffensive, summery and pleasant to the ear. 3.5/5
Jenna Young: Musically, this is an aright song. The introduction is quite nice, relaxing guitar. Then the vocals kick in and things go downhill. It seems like a different song, with some brass/woodwind instruments brought in. It doesn’t seem particularly cohesive as a song. 1/5
Luke Smith: Pleasantly mellow, although it does have a definite whiff of cliché elevator music to it. Still not bad at all, it would go nicely with a martini and some sunshine. 3/5
Andy Leddington: Sounds a bit like the background music to quite a nice gastropub. The song itself is pretty inoffensive, but the lyrical content is somewhat questionable when you actually get down to it. Not unenjoyable but certainly nothing to go mental over, pretty much the definition of average acoustic blues music. 3/5
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Moose Blood- Gum
Mitch Emery: An almost ballad sounding track from this quartet, with plenty of passion and lovey-dovey lyrics flowing alongside crunchy guitars and a general soundtrack of pure angst. This, complete with a chorus that really begs for a packed venue screaming out every word, makes for a rather marvellous listening experience! 4/5
Jenna Young: The vocals here have somewhat of a rough quality at times. The song as a whole build up a crescendo, which isn’t at all let down by the ending. It’s just a good rock song, no sub-genres needed. 3.5/5
Luke Smith: A solid rock number but god the video is really annoying. It’s painfully generic, and that dude needs a new bike! Choppers are so 80’s. Hipster. 3.5/5
Andy Leddington: It’s like someone took all of Tumblr, melted it down and drew the artwork to a Joy Division album with it. The instrumentation is ludicrously simple throughout, so it falls back on the lyrical content, which is fine, but it feels like unless you’ve recently been through a bad break-up or you maybe smoke a bit too much weed the lyrics aren’t actually going to mean all that much. Certainly not one of their best songs. 3/5
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Rocket Ship Resort- Where We’ll Go
Mitch Emery: If you ever thought that sugar was sweet, you’ll find that this number melts your teeth within seconds of pressing the play button on it. Happy to a point where it sounds almost disingenuous, this track is not recommended for anyone over the age of 16, in fact this would be a little more appropriate to those who thought that Blood On The Dancefloor were ‘like, sooooo metal and cooooooool’. There’s nothing bad here, but neither is there anything that really stands out. 2.5/5
Jenna Young: This reminds me of fun pop punk music like early We The Kings or Forever The Sickest Kids, but with some faint electronic elements. It’s a real summer tune that leaves you wanting to dance around the garden in the sun. 4.5/5
Luke Smith: I can deal with a bit of pop. But this made my skin crawl, I haven’t had a reaction bad since Owl City. Pass me the Sudocrem 1/5
Andy Leddington: So saccharine sweet that listening to it the whole way through nearly gave me diabetes, but at the same time so unashamedly happy that it’s annoyingly hard to hate. Your time could be spent do multitudes of better things, like bleaching your anus or yelling at clouds, but if you’ve recently taken a large amount of speed and run out of Owl City to listen to then you’re going to have a blast. 2/5
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The Bunny The Bear- It’s Not Always Cold In Buffalo
Mitch Emery: More Pop-Rock here. Nothing that is going to break any boundaries or set the world on fire, but nothing to slate. Another piece of it’s kind that will surely be followed up by many more pieces of it’s kind in the future. An enjoyable tune, if a little too formulaic. 3/5
Jenna Young: This is a very polished song, with a professional sound. The female and male vocals work brilliantly together, with the female accepting her natural talent rather than trying to sound like she’s in a rock band, and the rougher male vocal compliments her clean sound well. 4/5
Luke Smith: If there’s some kind of emotional tie in to this track I didn’t get it. But maybe that’s just because my soul was destroyed by too much heavy metal. 1/5
Andy Leddington: Fairly bland, and the music video is as close to irritatingly arty as you can get without being a Morrissey video. Not necessarily without it’s good moments, but on the whole not something anyone at Mosh would go out of their way to listen to. 2/5
