release date: Feb. 1, 2010
format: cd
[album rate: 2 / 5] [2,05]
producer: Kashmir, Andy Wallace, John O'Mahony
label: Columbia Records / Sony Music - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "Mouthful of Wasps" (2,5 / 5) - 2. "Intruder" (3 / 5) - 3. "Mantaray"
6th studio album by Kashmir is yet another not so original album release with music strongly inspired by (mostly British) artists like Radiohead, Coldplay and bits of new stylistic elements in its universe taken from post-punk revival artists like Editors and Interpol. The track "Mouthful of Wasps" featuring Oh Land on vocals was played so often on the national radio stations P3 and P4 that I had to turn off my radio - it's simply not a fine song - at the best it's mediocre (this album isn't even that), and that's really a fitting label for this copy-band, but don't say that to a Dane - they are so proud of Kashmir, and Eistrup is such a gifted songwriter (there). The bass, guitar and drum lines are Radiohead-founded to a degree that makes me wonder: WHY not try something else??? And no, I don't mean when you add a piano-sequence from a Coldplay track! That does not make it better.
