This is
the fourth of four records I received from Boxing Clever, all of which are
seven inch splits with a band per side and as was the case with everyone except
for A*Star, this is my first time hearing either of these two bands.
Starting
with The Great Crusades, because they are first, this is a solid song by
them. I have to admit I looked them up
after listening to this and found some of their videos on YouTube. I wasn’t really a big fan of their folk
sound, but this single here is legit.
It has helped me to want to hear more of their music and consequently
all of their songs have come to grow on me now.
“Sometimes
on Sundays Too” is a sort of down south almost bluegrass type of musical sound
with those elements of the blue collar rock n roll style of Bruce Springsteen
and the E. Street Band added in for good measure. As if that isn’t enough to make you want to
read the entire works of Hunter S. Thompson, the vocals also bring out the best
of Tom Waits and, well, I was sold immediately when he came to mind.
Planeausters
are still in the category of overall rock n roll, sure, but their style is
quite different from that of The Great Crusades, though that isn’t to say the
two wouldn’t share a stage because further apart musical acts have collaborated
before.
The
sound of Planeausters is something between that commercial rock appeal that The
Beatles touched upon and was more recently ripped off by Oasis, but there is
also just enough of The Benjamins in here to give Planeausters their own
blend. (Full Discretion: I actually don’t
mind the music of Oasis so much, it’s the fact that they sing about being themselves
and copying no one else then copy everyone else that bothers me)
So here
you have two bands that might not seem like they go together, but they do, and
should I ever see anything about either of them anywhere else again, I will be
sure to read it/listen to their music, and in that sense, as a singles club of
sorts, Boxing Clever has just done a perfect job.
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