John Burgess 

Suicide Sports Club, Electric Mistress

(B Rock)
  
  

Electric Mistress

Some bands have rather awful names but bypass the problem by being quite brilliant - the Arctic Monkeys for example. Others have an intriguing nom de stage but ruin things by being a bit rubbish. Suicide Sports Club fall into this category. Their name apparently relates to "living on the edge, pushing things to the limit and throwing caution to the wind". They do that all right: this is eclecticism gone mad.

Looks Like a Star is like a listless Royksopp with whistling (never a good idea) and more bahbahing than a field full of slaughterbound lambs. I Don't Know features a rather sedate rap from Duke, and Suspect and sounds like a classy Faithless but then they veer into Linkin Park rap metal and electro-goth with the unfortunate Saffron from Republica (never a good idea) "spiked by ketamine" and sounding like she's having a jolly bad time on it.

 

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