Allura
Wake Up and Smell the Seaweed
2008 / 6 tracks, 25.5 mins / Unsigned
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Starts strongly with "Liberty with Wings". Don't mind the harsh guitar and clunky drums throughout the six tracks, because "Wake Up and Smell the Seaweed" is infectious, easy, relaxing, even. Even the weakest link "Gamajazillion" has its own clever-artful-Polytechnic-student breakdown, several of them, in fact, "Wake Up and Smell the Seaweed"'s makes up for its lack of originality by piling up truckloads of been-there-done-that ideas and screws them together solidly. In a world where music is getting recycled so often, what better way to escape the inevitable subconscious sampling than to embrace it fully? These guys are so unabashedly crafted with smorgasbords of rhythm generics that they manage to be entertaining despite sounding completely overused. Power-pop post-grunge emo-punk "Ladeda" saves the back from drifting off into a hazy and boringly mediocre ending. It's the single-handed saviour of Singapore's alternative rock scene, and the best image lead singer Inch Chua has ever had to offer.
B4
Track Cuts: "Ladeda"
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