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"Despondent Transponder" This new album is
insanely good!
Maybe even
better than My Bloody Valentine. I always describe them as being like MBV tempered with a little bit of Slowdive. A little less noisey than MBV but just as gazey.
Here's a pretty accurate review:
THE FLEETING JOYS DESPONDENT TRANSPONDER
(Only Forever Recordings)
BY
DAVID MANSDORF At this point I think it's pretty safe to say that My Bloody
Valentine are never getting back together to finish up their follow-
up to their classic Loveless album. There have been some glimmers of
hope in the past few years - tales of the band reconvening in the
studio have occassionally circulated around the internet - but it's
just not going to happen. This is where California's Fleeting Joys
come into the picture. The group has got the classic My Bloody
Valentine Loveless-era sound down to a "t". The dense fog of
disorienting guitars, the powerful drums, the hard to understand
vocals that could be coming from a man, a woman, or both....it's all
here. Seriously, you could pass these nine songs off as a collection
of unreleased My Bloody Valentine tracks and nobody would doubt it.
Sounds pretty pointless, right? Wrong. If the Fleeting Joys were just
copying the style of Kevin Shields and Co. without doing anything
interesting with it, it would be easy to just ignore them. However,
The Fleeting Joys write some truly top notch tunes. In fact, a few
songs on this album are just as good as anything on Loveless ("Go and
Come Back", "Patron Saint" and the awesome instrumental "I Want More
Life FKR" come to mind), and that is no light praise. They're not
signed to a record deal yet (Only Forever is the band's own label"),
but they really should be. Hell, I'd sign them if I knew how to run a
label! Given a proper recording budget, these guys would be capable
of putting out some classic material.
DAVID MANSDORF
