Goodbooks' desire to ride against the current makes their debut album all the the more unusual, and all the more exciting. A four-piece from Kent, England with an average age of around 21, the band is making headway. Control may manage to sound like a sketchbook for a band unsure of its identity, but I'd rather have Control's genre-shifting variety over the current crop of top 40, three-chord trick bands any day of the week.
There is a canyon, through which the river of music should flow. On one side of the canyon there is a great verge of cheese, which is the smelly kind, in a bad way. This must be avoided. On the other side is a great verge of indeterminate obscurity. Elements of this obscurity are wonderful, yet as with the cheese, for a good river you need both sides. So, the river flows with the colour of creation. And at the same time there is inquisitiveness, a journey through all sorts of weird and wonderful sounds. The river eventually flows to the sea, whence cometh enlightenment/the meaning of life/a glimpse of the ultimate form of good.mediafire
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