2014-04-27
The Sunpilots – King of The Sugarcoated Tongues.
Album Review.
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Having stumbled across the Sunpilots on Twitter, I took the
opportunity to listen to their Album - King of The Sugarcoated Tongues.
What I initially listened to was the first song on the album
– The Pipers Mirror.
The Pipers mirror: came with with an accompanying
cartoon/video, setting the song to an anime mix. My first thoughts were, oh oh, someone’s
attempting to be like The Gorrilaz, that Damon Albarn of Blurs creation. Perhaps I spent too
long looking at the cartoon initially, where their was a character resembling Captain
Haddock in the adventures of Tin-Tin but as I concentrated on the song, I was
pleasantly surprised.
The songs lead vocalist has a good range of vocals and the song
had a good guitar riff running through it allowing the instrumentation and
vocals to harmonise.
3 Minutes to midnight was a decent follow up to The Pipers
Mirror, following on from the harmonising instrumentation.
King of the Sugarcoated Tongues, from which the album takes
its name, is a song that was disappointing when considering the opening two
songs…not altogether a bad song but the tune was a little plain.
The song: The Captain – opens on a long instrumental lead
into the song. Now again, we hit good form. A refreshing change in direction from
the previous songs and a tad lengthy at 8:33 minutes.
God Science: A fair song that sits well on the album. Perhaps
its most experimental and vocally challenging. A good attempt.
Sex and TV: Another Albarnism? in that it could be a
reference to Blur’s Coffee and TV written by Graham Coxon..., No really it isn’t and probably just
coincidental. I loved this song – great harmonies, constant changes in tempo and
useful lyrics and riffs in the guitars to die for. Lyrically seems to be a
reference to a populous whose minds are captured and controlled by TV.
Undecided as to whether this is the best song on the album.
Rain: like king of the sugarcoated tongues, it disappointed
a little. Following on from Sex and TV, it was an anti-climax too. Every album
has a weak song; I guess this is the one.
Exodus: A return to form and a tidy end to the album, it bursts straight into the lyrics
with little intro giving it a different start to some of the albums other
songs. I live songs that dare to change tempo, and this one does it best. 5
minutes in, the song seems to begin again and raises itself to a vocally
liberated hiatus. Good final song
Summary
A decent album, the pilots have obviously spent some
time on their songs and are a talented bunch. If I am honest, I’d like to see
them attempt some ballads and slow down their songs once in a while as the lead
vocalist has a wide set of vocals to draw on and in my mind could have tested
his range further in this album.
