Mellow The Band - Bliss

  by Dixie Ernill

published: 15 / 8 / 2004

Label: Global Impact Records
Format: CD

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Unsatisfactory merging of psychedelia with chilled-out post-rock on debut album from Mellow the Band

I listened to this CD several times. Not because I enjoyed it, but because I wanted to give it every chance to make a good impression on me. I even tried listening to it in different environments; in the car, washing up, as background music at work and even in the bath. I turned the volume up and I turned the volume down. Sadly, I came to the same conclusion every time…….it sucked (to use the American phrase). As the excellent London popsters, Spearmint, once alluded to in their classic single “Sweeping The Nation”, there are loads of worthy bands out there that never release any records, so why does something as truly awful as this get released? Somebody somewhere has more money than sense. If the vocal parts were removed from the CD, then as an instrumental chill-out album it would score a begrudging  4/10. 'Higher Then' has a vague resemblance to Moby’s 'Porcelain', but in truth the two are poles apart and again the singer’s dreadful, reedy voice ruins things anyway. Elsewhere, 'Mellow' could be a poor man’s American Mike Skinner but again I’m clutching at straws to try and find some good in the CD. The one big plus point is that there are only 8 tracks to endure. At least Mellow The Band have spared me the pain of wading through a 15 tracker! There isn’t really much more I can say about this CD.

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