By: Scott Jeffrey
The Big Pink, A London England duo consisting of Robbie Furze and Milo Cordel, has been at it since 2009. On their debut album A Brief History of Love, the band gained notoriety with the single Dominos.
Their sophomore effort Future This seems to have a very similar sound to the first record. The first track Stay Gold sounds like it might as well belong on the first album with a very similar progression to Dominoes.
The Big Pink does an electro-bass pop sound very well. It is electronic music that you can hear evolved out of bands like Soft Cell and Depeche Mode, only with a much more positive and modern spin.
Lose Your Mind starts off like an early Nine Inch Nails song, but turns into a very different entity. With a really heavy bass and slow rumbling chorus, this is the harder song on the album that dances on a line between electro pop and rock.
77 the final track on the album slows things down for a nice close. This will probably make its way into greys anatomy for one of those voiceovers. It’s got sweeping strings, piano and thick electronic drum line to perfectly compliment one of those depressing monologues.
Rubbernecking is probably one of my favourite songs on the album. It does what this band does best, gives you a good party tune that you could blast at a small club and get a massive response from the crowd. It’s so catchy you can’t help but like it. Through a good set of speakers the bass will shock you out of a stupor and make you want to carpe diem.
The band is not known for having the most formidable lyrics, labelled as Britpop for the simplicity and pure catchiness of the choruses. With their introspective, serious songs like Hit The Ground (Superman) really only having a few simple and direct verses. It is not poetry but it strives to be yet another catchy track on the album. It seems as though they aren’t going for Dylan like storytelling, but for an Oasis chorus that even the drunkest bar patron could launch into.
Now I know you are saying, it’s pop what of it? Sometimes an effort to tell a story or show a different side to a band on a sophomore album gives them a little more staying power, and I fear The Big Pink have just given us more of the same old stuff.
6/10
Final thought: Not a terrible album, but also not anything spectacular. I don’t think its going to be flying up any charts quite the way as intended. A few songs are very good as singles, but don’t really show the band growing in any way. Not that it is a bad idea to produce catchy radio/club friendly songs, but eventually things start to get old and this year’s single sounds the same as last year’s single. I just expected a bit more out of this.
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