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Album Reviews
Album Review: Yellow Moon Band – Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World (Static Caravan Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 January 2009
It’s a well trodden path: Boy meets boy (at birth, to be fair); boys listen to The Grateful Dead; boys brew some specially imported tea; boys suddenly think they can be rock megaliths. Welcome to the stage, Yellow Moon Band. What The Yellow Moon Band seem to have forgotten along the way to their debut is that the mere actions of rock stars are not sufficient adverts for a band. So, yes, it’s pretty interesting that they one day plotted a histogram “Using Jaffa cakes and Pink Wafers”, but that does not give them the authority to produce a very mediocre guitar solo for five minutes in between generous tokes and call it an instrumental song. Although this pretty much sums up every song. As an example, opener ‘Polaris’ trundles through a sixties back catalogue at snail’s pace with a tedious riff drawn out far from its sell-by date. ‘Chimney’ includes a one minute solo that’s about as original as Beverly Hills Cop 3. Their minor saving grace is the beginning of ‘Focussed’, a beautiful exposition on acoustic guitar. But even then it begins to carry all the hallmarks of power ballad like a weighty burden, and ultimately drags the album further into their own dilated pupils. It’s not that The Yellow Moon band make so many mistakes they can’t recover. They just need to know that no market niche can accept such a number of clichés dragged out for such a long time with barely any vocals at all. GB
