Every once in a while, I hear a band whose music sounds like it
\nis the offspring of two better-known bands. Sometimes, this merging
\nof styles is pleasant; other times, it sounds like cats being
\nthrown into a food processor. Then, there are the marriages of
\nstyle that both irritate me and thrill me. Ladies and gentlemen,
\nmeet The Statue Factor.<\/p>\n
Their independent disc
\nA Mission Of Five<\/i> sounds a lot like what would happen if the
\nB-52s and the Violent Femmes were to merge. Sometimes, the end
\nresult ain’t pretty, but there are times on this disc that show me
\nsuch a collaboration of styles can work, and can work well. Too bad
\nthere aren’t more moments like these on this disc.<\/p>\n
The band – vocalist Joseph Coehlo, guitarist Jesse Thomas,
\norganist\/vocalist Lady K, bassist James Dias and drummer Roger
\nKnight – often sound like an electrified Violent Femmes, only
\nthey’re lacking Gordon Gano’s annoying whine. Instead, Coehlo
\nbellows on some of the tracks as if he were being emotionally
\ntortured – not a great way to make a first impression. Throw in
\nLady K’s shouts from behind the keyboards, and you’ve got the
\nB-52’s without the smarminess of Fred Schneider – or, for that
\nmatter, the harmony of said band.<\/p>\n
The early minutes of
\nA Mission Of Five<\/i> are some of the band’s most difficult to
\nget through. Tracks like “Skulls, Blades And Hearts” and “She
\nDestroyed Me” fail to impress, even though these tracks often hint
\nat some promise. But just when you’re about to give up all hope on
\nthis band, out come tracks like “Coughing Up Blood” and “Popular
\nGirl Syndrome,” tracks which still need a coat of paint, but turn
\nout to be rather enjoyable efforts.<\/p>\n
This ping-ponging between quality and pain continues for most of<\/p>\n
A Mission Of Five<\/i>. For each track that was painful to listen
\nto (“Tight Shirt Conspiracy,” “He’s Cheap Luv”), there was a
\ncorresponding track that reaffirmed hope in The Statue Factor
\n(“Inemotion,” “After Midnight”). All of this, crammed into just
\nunder 40 minutes, leaves you feeling exhausted and a bit confused
\nat the end.<\/p>\n
The Statue Factor is still a very young band, and as
\nA Mission Of Five<\/i> proves, they do have some promise behind
\ntheir music. If they’re going to have a fighting chance in the
\ngladiator game we call the music industry, they have to work on
\nmaking their music less spotty and more cohesive and coherent. Once
\nthey do that, they will easily have a good chance at making a name
\nfor themselves nationally. Until then,
\nA Mission Of Five<\/i> suggests that the mission, while not
\nimpossible, may be hard to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7579],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-39400","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-statue-factor","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39400"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}