| Category | Rating |
|---|---|
| Track Structure | 8 |
| Interest | 9 |
| Melody | 8 |
| Performance | 10 |
| Lyrics | 9 |
| Enjoyment | 9 |
| Recording Quality | 9 |
| Commercial Appeal | 8 |
| Overall | 8.8 |
In case you are wondering what on earth the title means (ie if you are not English), it means to use your brains and nothing whatsoever to do with that slippy, wiggly eating stuff... Although I may know something about English idioms, I know nothing whatsoever about Ricky Mancini, although when I was a child I was bored rigid by the music of one Henry Mancini, hopefully no relation to this Mancini. Aaanyfekkinhow, this experimental musician is from Sheffield, a city with some wonderful musical connotations so who knows. Now, if I can stop gobbing off long enough, we may well get to see what his music is like too...
Stop gobbing off? Moi? I think not....
Over the past three or four years I've reviewed a great many experimental tracks that could rightfully be described by another use of the excre... letters, so truth to tell I wasn't really looking forward to this. However, once I had it blasting out of my speakers, that all changed. I can't really see where the term experimental applies to this track unless it's because of the kinda disjointed way its put together (more like breakbeats even) but I have to admit I liked it from the moment I fired it up. It's mix of dub bass, rocky guitar lines and cut up vocal lines (all about the war in Iraq as it happens) is pretty easy on the ears and it's clean production helps it to bound right out of the speakers and into your ears before you can say film soundtracks (oops, no, that's the other Mancini guy...)
It's also surprisingly original and while browsing the comments on the track I noticed that Mancini made a point that the only samples used are in fact the vocals which - in my mind - increases the allure of the track immensely. See, it's the juxtaposition of the drumbeats against the rock guitar that really singles out this track for me making it one track that is a pleasure to hear time and time again. For my money, the real test of any track is when you have it playing fairly constantly and STILL find things of interest in it. For me, it also perks up my interest in this artist enormously. I assume he is a new MP3 Unsigned artist, at least judging from the sparsity of his page, but not one I think that is going to be unknown for very much longer.
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