KAP BAMBINO – RED SIGN
(BECAUSE MUSIC)
At a time when no
bands know how to play or write guitar songs in an exciting manner, as an
alternative we get this: Kap Bambino.
And I can’t decide whether that is a good thing or bad thing. Or even whether it is acceptable.
Remember when Billy
Idol discovered and thought he’d invented Cyberpunk? How futuristic did that feel?
Surprisingly not very. It actually
looked quite silly. There was the same
old blonde man only now his clothes were strange and his hair platted into
dreadlocks. It looked more breakdown
than science fiction.
The point I am trying
to make is that this song sounds like Sigue Sigue Sputnik to me and while that
music wasn’t completely horrible, on the whole it was flawed. That was not a plausible approach to take in
an effort to storm the music world. And
yet here we go, another band co-opting that sound coupled with an Atari Teenage
Riot-esqe female vocalist.
Bands like this are
the spawn of Suicide. These are heady
two piece units where the bookish mute makes the music while a crazy
motherfucker on the microphone yanks all kinds of vocal chains in an effort to
leave an impression on the audience and listener.
Kap Bambino is French
(from Bordeaux to be exact) and therein perhaps lays the confusion. Singer Caroline Martial has been listed as a
“hot young model” and suddenly it would seem the appeal of the duo is not
necessarily in the music.
I scream, you scream,
she screams.
Thesaurus moment:
conehead.
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