Accept The Signal - Regular Fries

Advantages: great lyrics
Disadvantages: short

...The regular fries EP Free the regular fries is an ecclectic slightly surreal record that is characterised by a strange inlay and record cover that pictures one amplifier speaker from various angles in various states of disrepair. The album has a very intergalatic feel with tracks such as the prayer informing E T ‘that he will need indentification’ If he is to enter the solar system. Hypnosis is also a psychadellic mixture of dance beats and harrowing lyrics, this band is best viewed in a live context where it’s trademark is to toss large polysterine letters around the audience.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Great album
Disadvantages: None

...Two years on from their Happy Monday's homage debut LP, the Regular Fries return. This time around 'War on plastic plants' retains much of the highly enjoyable, instantly forgettable, funked-out disposable power-pop promised by the outstanding 'Smokin cigars with the Pharoahs' EP, yet also introduces a little more cohesivness, and even, a few 'proper' songs. More 'grown-up' tracks such as 'The Drowned World' and 'London eye brainticket' sit comfortably amongst the more usual loops and creative spills we have come to expect from these dancefloor nutters. With not a hint of mediocrity, the Fries return with just the sort of album we need in these desperate times where only dull guitar bands like Travis can make any impact on the sales of offensively bad manufactured rubbish. Give this band the recognition they deserve and buy this album... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average not helpful

Advantages: Funky, upbeat, and entertaining album well worth a listen
Disadvantages: Length of the interludes

...nicely for me the album's crowning glory. Following on from 'LoveStoned /I Think She Knows' is 'What Goes Around-Comes Around', a powerful track with an intense beat, great rhythm, and highly memorable chorus. The thing I love about this track is the fact that it breaks with expectation, and rather than sounding typically Justin Timberlake, it is more akin to the sound of N*SYNC. It is clear that his past status in the boy band has come to the forefront in this one and to a great effect. It is an interesting progression therefore that the next track on the album should be heavily Hip-Hop influenced 'Chop Me Up'. This little number features Timbaland, and if you didn't happen to be listening to the latest Justin Timberlake album you'd have serious problems accepting that this was in fact a song of his. Although the track would probably... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful