I really didn’t
want to talk about music right after the post about French Films, for this is
supposed to be a blog about many other things… But this guys I came across the
other day are driving me insane and I thought it’d be a good idea to spill it
all out and share it with you, for the Repeat
button of my music player’s sake.
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| Do you remember the triplets in the Disney film Brave? Well, one of them grew up. |
Did you meet Theme Park before? No? Let me introduce them for you. Although it began as a quartet, now they are a three-piece
band (with occasional companions) born in London a few years ago. Oscar Manthorpe and the Haughton brothers,
Marcus and Miles are, in fact, school friends that fulfilled the classic adolescence
dream and ended up working together. But, apart from when they started being a
band, they’ve also been the talk of the town (the British Indie music town,
that’s it) for a while, since in 2011 they supported Bombay Bicycle Club in one
of their tours.
However, it’s
in this very month when they’re going to release their first studio album. This
long pregnancy will result in a self-named LP, consisting of eleven pop songs (“in
a good way”, says Miles), with a catchy and happy vibe, relevant keys and
electric strings sound and soul baritone voice, to cheer you up on a Friday evening.
Well, I say that listening to the singles they released earlier on (such as
Wax, Two Hours and Tonight), but until the 25th of February there’s
always the possibility of finding some more melancholic tunes. We’ll see.
Some music
websites and Magazines have talked about them and shared reviews of their
singles. Some of these some (cf. the Guardian or NME's articles) don’t lift the band to the Olympus of the music scene, mostly
because they see Theme Park as poor successors of the 80’s band Talking Heads (or other 80's bands, such as China Crisis and the Simple Minds). I don’t know, but I agree more with those other ones (like indiefuzz.com and We all want someone to shout for) that label them as a promising music group that has something to say in its very own way.
