The Verve - 'Love Is Noise'
Oh GREAT. The blimming Verve are back. Well this is certainly going to be a cause for celebration, isn't it? We should all get our party hats out, dig out the sparkliest numbers from the back of the wardrobe and prepare to par-TAY. Richard Ashcroft - a man who seems to have never been any younger than 35 even in the prime of his youth - and his band of visionary sour-faced space-rockers. They've decided to get back together, just to remind everyone how rubbish everything is. That's their job - they elected themselves, y'know - and they make a decent fist of it too.
Except there seems to have been a mixup in the manufacture of their comeback song. For starters it's faster than strutting speed. If they attempted to make another video along the lines of 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' to this song, Richard would have to power-walk, just to keep up with his band's pounding disco fury. And I think that might just ruin the whole swaggering-in-shoulder-pads point, as it's impossible to look haughty and cool when your bum is swinging from side to side.
And there's some sampled girly backing vocals too. And while this is a good thing, it's going to cause confusion among the band's gravy-flavoured fan base. Samples? Girls? Isn't that the kind of thing they do in *spits* POP music?
Most damning of all for the poor Verve massive, this song sounds very much like the work of another band. A band who have been known to cavort around the stage in pink jackets and guy-liner, no less. A band who are from Las Vegas and who aren't afraid to channel the spirit of Bruce Springsteen.
Yep, it's official, the Verve now sound like the Killers. OH, THE CONFUSION!
Still, am I the only one to think it rather suits them? Really? Oh.
Download: Out now
CD Released: August
(Fraser McAlpine)
PS: Winston's Zen blog has a FAR more respectful review of this song, although possibly not as enthusiastic. ...
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