The Creature Comfort - The Creature Comfort (Critter
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| The Creature Comfort - The Creature Comfort |
So, according to the press bumph,
the Creature Comfort are the long lost great hopes of the Madchester era who
were forced to disband on the verge of great things. Band leader Ben Le Jeune
has pulled together a line-up in order to make a comeback and release what is
technically the band's debut album...twenty odd years after first getting
together - even Bez wasn't that laid back! This half hour album of post punk
fun kicks off with 'Sauce' which will surely be adopted as the new theme for
the comeback of Ready, Steady, Cook such is it's edible lyrical content and dad
rock tendencies. 'Sally Sucks' has more of the spirit of Iggy and the Stooges
about it but it's still a little creepy listening to what is a fairly weathered
voice singing about Sally sucking and her rich daddy.
The simplistic, almost naively
honest sentiment of 'I Do Need You' is charming although I'm not sure the song
needs to be five minutes long - there aren't really enough ideas to justify
this for what is essentially a post punk love song. The Beatles-esque opening
of '1,000 miles' is instantly appealing and Le Jeune's vocal delivery is on a
par with Lennon at his more charismatic or the Zutons at their storytelling best.
The warm, funky bass line that opens up 'Step Down From The Sky' is tempting
and seductive and the thick slices of juicy organ partially deliver on that
promise but overall this song, as with the majority of the album, just doesn't
quite deliver on its promise. The baggy and loose bass and organ interplay on
'Windowpane' gives us an indication of what this band might have been back in
the day but not it just feels half a beat behind the rest of the world which is
either sad for the band or sad for us. Expansive drums and some thin guitars
herald the beginning of the end of this album as 'Electric Eyes' lurches in to
life and, once again, the initial promise of the song dissipates as the chorus
arrives. Overall, I wish this album had been released 20 years ago so that the
band could have learned from their own ill conceived ideas because I think
there is more to come from them that could be genuinely exciting. There's still
time though, I gues...
More information: http://www.thecreaturecomfort.com/
Live Dates:
11th October - Gulliver's, Manchester