Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Team Waterpolo - Digital
With funky breaks on their intro CD and set of decks and mixer not seen onstage with an indie band since the heady days of Skunk-rock (remember that?) nobody seemed quite sure what to expect as ‘Team Waterpolo’ took to the stage at Digital.
There’s ludicrous hype on the band following just one Moshi Moshi released single, various support tours and some heavy tipping from the big radio players. And after just a handful of songs it was pretty obvious why TW have such a frantic A&R scramble on their hands to boot.
Put simply, they boast an arsenal of outrageously functional pop tunes that it would probably take a team of 12 crack producers to compose. So compact and deadly catchy is each number, you can already hear a frothing Jo Whiley introducing them ahead of the vocal.
However, when this moment comes, I for one will be reaching for the ‘off’ switch rather than the volume knob. And so too will you if the V Festival friendly pap of Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi et al isn’t your bag. For in truth, other than a smattering of dubious ‘dancey’ flourishes, TW offer little to no advance on this unfathomably tired and grindingly irritating strain of mainstream indie.
posted by: Jim Brackpool @ 5:30 PM
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