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Whenever a musical subgenre becomes commercially successful, there are opportunistic musicians who say, “Hey, I can do that, too.” Likewise, Manchester’s the Whip take the Editors’ approach to the indie electro aesthetic: slick production, some bona fide hooks, embarrassing lyrics and an overarching authenticity problem.
While opener Trash sounds like the sort of thing Bloc Party should have done after Silent Alarm, most tracks are hurt by a real lack of lyrical depth. Case in point, on Throw It In The Fire singer Danny Saville laments, “I can’t go home, and I can’t stay here” – basically the same philosophical problem Semisonic grappled with back in 1998.
The Whip play the Cobrasnake Dance Party July 10 at Wrongbar.
