What are we talking about?
Today people we are discussing Liverpudlian weird rock outfit SPQR’s new single ‘PLINK’.
What hooked me?
From the off the guitar notes just hang temptingly in the air before the brilliant bass riff (can a riff be ‘sexy’?) and solid yet inventive drums tie everything together. The vocals are some of the best I’ve heard recently too, both lead and backing. An Inventive and solid song. Also the band’s name I think is a reference to the government of ancient Rome, I could be totally wrong and it’s just a cool way to spell speaker. Either way the name itself hooked me when I was sent a list of stuff to review by our musical overlord, Hudson.
Key moments:
1. The intro sets the song out very well it is instantly attention grabbing and unique.
2. The chorus builds in and is far more powerful than I was expecting. If the song didn’t have your attention by this point it definitely will now.
3. The bridge bit where it’s just vocals. It’s beautiful and doesn’t take any ‘umph’ out of the song and it foreshadows the vocal-laden-into-A-Capella outro. Brilliant.
4. Stand-out lyric ‘I’ve become my own hearse, where I am the driver but I’m in the coffin too’ Artwork: It’s a rodent with wings. Like Angel Mouse, remember that? The one were David Jason voiced a dead mouse and as kids we were cool with it, not realising the ramifications of him actually being an angel before we truly understood the concept of death and the program just furthered the lie for us? It was a good program that.
Artwork
The artwork has a simplicity to it that’s both odd and intriguing much like the band itself. You’d pick it up even if you’d never heard of the band. Artwork mission: Accomplished.
Feedback
This song really offers something new. I can sense some musical influences but the track itself has so much of its own stamp on the current rock movement in this green unpleasant land (see what I did there?) that I can’t really put my finger/ear on what exactly those influences are. This is a very good thing. To those fortunate many who don’t know; I’m a drummer, and this song has that thing about it that makes me want to go straight to my kit and play along. Great hi-hat work in the verses and the variation in drums from chorus to chorus is something rarely done and, even more rarely, done well. It works perfectly here. The whole musical and lyrical experience of the song works well. Each instrument compliments the others and the vocals are so well fit they just feel like another instrument too. Which, for me anyway, is the best thing vocals can do. This is a very good song. Even the more miserable of my two cats seemed taken by it and he hates everything, Especially You!
Summary
Overall this is a unique, catchy, musically intriguing, and very well put together single. Give this song a listen over and over and over and over and…
Line From The Band
SPQR's most charming of gentlemen, Pete spoke to us about the release; "'Plink' is our second single. I went into recording it feeling a little apprehensive. I wasn't sure it was that good, and certainly not one of our strongest ones. But Bex and Nick loved it so we did it. With Tidd of COLOUR producing, it became something I loved. It kept that longing melancholy feel I intended it to have. It's a sad'un!"
Vital Info
If you like what you hear, SPQR have loads of gigs coming up, and (YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST) are recording an E.P right now. Please visit their lovely website. www.spqrofficial.com
Reviewer Profile
Kenn Rushworth is a short, handsome guy who writes poems. He drums for a band called ‘Forever in Debt’; he likes what you’ve done with your hair; he can’t find his keys.
Today people we are discussing Liverpudlian weird rock outfit SPQR’s new single ‘PLINK’.
What hooked me?
From the off the guitar notes just hang temptingly in the air before the brilliant bass riff (can a riff be ‘sexy’?) and solid yet inventive drums tie everything together. The vocals are some of the best I’ve heard recently too, both lead and backing. An Inventive and solid song. Also the band’s name I think is a reference to the government of ancient Rome, I could be totally wrong and it’s just a cool way to spell speaker. Either way the name itself hooked me when I was sent a list of stuff to review by our musical overlord, Hudson.
Key moments:
1. The intro sets the song out very well it is instantly attention grabbing and unique.
2. The chorus builds in and is far more powerful than I was expecting. If the song didn’t have your attention by this point it definitely will now.
3. The bridge bit where it’s just vocals. It’s beautiful and doesn’t take any ‘umph’ out of the song and it foreshadows the vocal-laden-into-A-Capella outro. Brilliant.
4. Stand-out lyric ‘I’ve become my own hearse, where I am the driver but I’m in the coffin too’ Artwork: It’s a rodent with wings. Like Angel Mouse, remember that? The one were David Jason voiced a dead mouse and as kids we were cool with it, not realising the ramifications of him actually being an angel before we truly understood the concept of death and the program just furthered the lie for us? It was a good program that.
Artwork
The artwork has a simplicity to it that’s both odd and intriguing much like the band itself. You’d pick it up even if you’d never heard of the band. Artwork mission: Accomplished.
Feedback
This song really offers something new. I can sense some musical influences but the track itself has so much of its own stamp on the current rock movement in this green unpleasant land (see what I did there?) that I can’t really put my finger/ear on what exactly those influences are. This is a very good thing. To those fortunate many who don’t know; I’m a drummer, and this song has that thing about it that makes me want to go straight to my kit and play along. Great hi-hat work in the verses and the variation in drums from chorus to chorus is something rarely done and, even more rarely, done well. It works perfectly here. The whole musical and lyrical experience of the song works well. Each instrument compliments the others and the vocals are so well fit they just feel like another instrument too. Which, for me anyway, is the best thing vocals can do. This is a very good song. Even the more miserable of my two cats seemed taken by it and he hates everything, Especially You!
Summary
Overall this is a unique, catchy, musically intriguing, and very well put together single. Give this song a listen over and over and over and over and…
Line From The Band
SPQR's most charming of gentlemen, Pete spoke to us about the release; "'Plink' is our second single. I went into recording it feeling a little apprehensive. I wasn't sure it was that good, and certainly not one of our strongest ones. But Bex and Nick loved it so we did it. With Tidd of COLOUR producing, it became something I loved. It kept that longing melancholy feel I intended it to have. It's a sad'un!"
Vital Info
If you like what you hear, SPQR have loads of gigs coming up, and (YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST) are recording an E.P right now. Please visit their lovely website. www.spqrofficial.com
Reviewer Profile
Kenn Rushworth is a short, handsome guy who writes poems. He drums for a band called ‘Forever in Debt’; he likes what you’ve done with your hair; he can’t find his keys.