Friday, 8 August 2008The Ruling Class on Club Fandango Records Artist: The Ruling Class Title: Flowers / If You Wonder Label: Label Fandango Country of Origin: United Kingdom (UK) Quantity Pressed: 700 Release Date: 28th Jul 2008 I was in a bar recently where someone had played the Happy Mondays 'Step On' maybe 5 times in a row, I thought it was accidentally stuck. That period of dance rock English fusion hasn't been forgotten, it's still very much alive in the reissues of these now classic albums and by bands like The Ruling Class. Influenced by a who's who list of early nineties distinctly brit-pop voices, Verve, Suede, Blur, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Ride and the Stone Roses among others, they are working very much within this border less sound, shoegaze set. The Ruling Class thrive on those little single note guitar melody, repeating, echoing....with a lot of different percussion layers. It's not intentionally fast or forceably danceable but it's the double-time shaker and muted strumming scrapes that pushes it over the edge into that can't-help-but-move territory. 'Flowers' is the big sounding hit song that starts out right away rocking in that middle ground, at home just as easily in clubs as driving around in your car. Jonathan Sutcliffe's reverb vocals flicker around and bounce off in every direction in that great dream like way, as you wade through the depth of sounds. The B-side 'If you wonder' starts with a little chorus-y riff that blows up after the bassline sets the tone, and changes up to find that Happy Mondays groove, the foundation for the shimmery guitar washes and rim shot near funk. It's a bafflingly full sound that in the end is informed by this decade but with heavy nods to this anti-grunge era of dense guitar textures. Jason Dean Labels: club fandango records, the ruling class
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