single review

The Lodger – Many thanks for your honest opinion (Dance to the Radio www.dancetotheradio.com) (Catalogue Number – DTTR003)

Hailing from Leeds, UK – two-piece band “The Lodger” with additional help beat help have been described in the NME as “gloriously poppy” or in Sandman magazine “ A seemingly endless array of melodies knitted together into kitchen sink dramas without wasting a note.”

Although perhaps I found the more rocky first tracks perhaps slightly under produced I certainly loved the second and third tracks, the more largely acoustic / unplugged “Unsatisfied” and “Let’s make a pact” where I can certainly hear by the vocalist Ben’s style a young Paul Weller in his “The Jam” days which mirrored with a half decent tune certainly does suggest that this band have some real promise.

Let’s just hope they don’t next release a single in the style of “The Style Council”

Promising stuff either way….