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The Voom Blooms
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CD Title:
Politics and Cigarettes
Genre:
Indie rock
# of Tracks:
CD Single (2 tracks)
Release Date:
March 20th 2006
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Reviewed on Mar 20, 2006
by Gary Lancaster (Gary).
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As far as young emerging bands go, finding one these days which doesn’t fall head long into the “emo” categorization is relatively hard. Thus when the single of an exciting band does land on my desk, I like to break convention and run a review of it, especially if they are good.
Despite their relatively peculiar name, The Voom Blooms, a band residing from Loughborough, England, are in fact, a great sounding indie / pop-rock quartet who’s debut single “Politics and Cigarettes” has grabbed attention from Polydor records. (Yes, that’s Universal Music… the biggest record label there is.) So, they must be doing something right.
“Politics and Cigarettes” is an ode to their indie rock forefathers sounding like a cross between the simple velocity of U2 with their unfathomable catchiness and the ever hailed, ever absorbing quality held by the Libertines – that is, doing something incredibly simple, and still making it sound inredible.
Needless to say Polydor were not entering this endeavour blindly… large amounts of airplay on the infamous BBC Radio 1 presented the band the stepping stone they needed to make it into the board room of the label who might just do everyone in the world a favour by releasing music by this band.
If you are a follower of such bands as Bloc Party, Interpol and yes, The Libertines, then make sure that The Voom Blooms are the only band you make your self check out this year, you certainly won’t regret it.
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