fun. - Aim and Ignite
Indie pop trio bring the 'fun' on their debut. Or do they?
US indie-popsters fun. (note the lowercase f and full stop) open their debut album release with a sort-of-fittingly-titled track called ‘Be Calm’, with its sweetly folkish intro, that gradually grows evermore intense and quickening in pace as the song itself takes hold and more layers are added, making it increasingly less calm by the minute. Culminating in a somewhat confused ending, all the instruments eventually lose wind and fizzle into nothing.
It;s certainly fun, and we suspect that that’s the whole point. But is it any good? Actually, for the most part, it is.
'At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)' is a real breath of fresh air and is definitely a stand-out track. Opening with "Have you ever wondered about all our old nu-metal friends and what became of them?", before listing reason after reason, and cutting comment after the next about why they haven't. Comic genius.
‘All The Pretty Girls’ seems, on the surface at least, a sweet, heartfelt lament. Although lyrically it’s a little on the savage-but-obviously-tongue-in-cheek side of things – at least, we really hope it is – only to turn it around at the last moment: “All the pretty girls can’t measure to you”. 'I Wanna Be The One', meanwhile, is almost nonsensical, but again is quite a sweet little love song. All this soppiness would usually see Rocklouder reaching for a bucket...
The band themselves may be having a blast - and that's important, certainly - but surely the listener should be having just as much of a good time, and sometimes 'Aim and Ignite' fails to communicate. Perhaps too much fun sometimes isn't such a good thing.
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