Title: New Sound, Poor Execution
Product review: I made the expensive mistake of buying this CD as an import. It's been several years since Elastica's eponymous debut CD, but they apparently didn't spend much of the intervening time writing and practicing new songs. There's lots of discordant guitars, screeching vocals and odd time signatures. When the Pixies used these same elements a decade ago they created masterpieces. In the hands of Justine Frischmann and her bandmates-du-jour, all we get are a bunch of sloppy tunes which don't hold together. To boot, the two new keyboardists in the band don't add much to the overall sound, except for amateurish doodles here and there.Don't misunderstand me; the last thing I'd want to hear would be a carbon-copy of their first album. I just wish they'd spent more time polishing their new sound before committing it to disk.
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