oh, right. well, here we are, look you see. in what i suspect might (or may) be a first, here's a review, or comments, on an album that i had only the vaguest sense of existing (believe i saw an ad in passing), no intention of buying and, as would follow, no real wish to hear or comment on. yet, as the title says, here we are.
which album is it that i write of? so far as i can ascertain the actual title is Kaiser Chief's Easy Eighth Album by (ahem) Kaiser Chiefs. perhaps, or maybe, it's just called Easy Eighth Album. no idea why they decided on making the name so needlessly complex, but i am no rock and roll star. or wannabe rock and roll star.
indeed, as can be seen quite clearly above, i have fiddled with my VHS app some and have now mastered the art of getting some boss static / tracking lines to appear, making it look quite class. or as good as it can, yes, i am really missing Commodore 64 mode. but another interesting sort of replacement is coming up (or down) below just now.
provenance and reason for actually getting this record, then? in conversation recently Dad mentioned that he had heard some songs from it (or off of it) and quite liked it. by chance (and not long after) i was in one of my preferred vibes retailers. it just so happened that they had been donated several copies of this tape (disc) to be sold south of one half of the retail price as means of contributing funds towards a good cause. under such circumstances it was a pretty straightforward purchase choice.
so, is the album (record, tape, disc) any good? actually it's pretty decent. gets about business with little in the way of messing about, as it happens. the ten (10) tracks come to a combined running length which is less or shorter ("fewer") that thirty minutes, so yes indeed you can play the whole album twice in an hour. doing such (playing it twice) is no bad thing at all.
behold, then, for above is the first image i have used off of my new "thermal" camera thing off of my phone. of course no, it is not an "actual" thermal camera, just takes pictures in that style or format. hope you enjoy the new direction, and yes i shall fiddle with some of the settings for future, rather than previous, posts.
there aren't really any "stand out" tracks on this Easy Eighth Album as they all fly by so quick. it is, however, a most enjoyable thirty (ish) minutes, so no, there are no bad tunes at all. generally such short songs would suggest a kind of edgy, punchy, punk thrash sound, but more of a sense of 90s tunes with 80s production values are the case.
no, i have absolutely no idea how this record compares to their previous (i assume) 7 albums. whereas i am aware that there's an expectation for me to fawn over them as they are of Yorkshire, it's like they have done things what i am aware of, yes they are pretty good but also no, they've never really been a band i felt a need to latch on to. good luck to them, mind.
could be that this is accidentally (an unintentionally) damning by implication, but the aspect of the album what impressed me the most was a note in the booklet what said that the cover art was done, or designed by, Jim Moir. this i shall take as being Vic Reeves. nice one.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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