Bikini Test Failure
Another Day, Another Fat Pile Of Cash
© 2005 James A. Hill (634479101588)
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British alt.rock music - big guitars, big beats, Hammond organ, grit, wit and above all, a BEAUTIFUL chorus - think of Doves meet Pink Floyd. Epic songs.
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If there's a theme to the album, it's Life Is Short. With that in mind...
Listen to Track 3, "Are We Having A Good Time Yet?" - the song that has been getting all the US Alt. radioplay - 100+ stations so far and counting. A beautiful tune, harsh words, loud guitars over a hypnotic heavy groove.
If it pulls you in, go back and listen to Track 2, the gentler "Nobody Knows Anything" - Radiohead plays a nice tune.
The follow-up radio single was Track 4, "Star" - more hard lyrics, and sounding as if Neil Young wrote songs for Led Zep. Perhaps.
The forthcoming single is Track 7, "Oxygen Thieves" - more laid back guitar-groove in the vein of trk 3 "AWHAGTY".
Those are the instantly accessible highlights - there's a lot more, but you can listen at length when the CD arrives...
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You'll be humming it later in the week...
author: Don KarnageThere are solo artists, and then there are SOLO artists. James Hill, who apparently dislikes his name so much he hides behind the "Bikini Test Failure" moniker, is one of the latter. Playing 99.9% of the music, singing 99.9% of the vocals, producing, taking the photos, doing all the promotion himself - it's a one-man operation all the way. Heck, even when he uses a sample, it's a sample of himself, aged four, babbling into a microphone. Fortunately, this one-man-everything didn't end up recording an insular piece of muck that no one but himself could understand. Instead, it's an extremely accessible piece of British pop/rock that'll have you humming after 30 seconds, and singing along by chorus number two. "Are We Having a Good Time Yet?", "Fling" and "Oxygen Thieves" are fantastic songs with clever-but-not-snide lyrics that keep me pulling the disc out of the rack again and again. Buy the CD now, and impress your friends when you tell them you-knew-him-when. So what's the deal with that squirrel on the cover? Not sure. Maybe this James guy owned him money.
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author: Doug CashPsychedelic, Beatlesque with some XTC on the side as is eveident on the track Nobody Knows Anything.Very wide and happy.Well worth the listen. Doug Cash www.swrecords.net