Spooky - Lush

In yesterday's blog I bleated on in my inimitable style, wandering and without any real point, about the relationship between the name of a band and their music. I may have had a point or, as is much more likely, been wide of the mark. What mark? Exactly.

Anyway, before I spaniel off topic once again, here's another example. 'Lush' are the onomatopoeia of indie-pop music; they sound exactly that.... lush. If you've not heard them before imagine a band with genes spliced from The Cocteau Twins and The Sundays. If you haven't heard of either of them then quite franky there's no hope for you. Multi-chorused guitars sweep around the dreamy barely decipherable vocals. Unfairly criticised for sitting in the shoe gazing camp, the album creates a wide blanket of sound which is all too easy to get lost in. Its not difficult to see why the shoegazing tag was added with such regulatity - once a song begins there is not a whole deal of dynamic shift. A blanket of sound rather than peaks and troughs. But does that really matter? No-one called The Cocteau Twins shoegazers and not all music has to be verse-chorus-verse or quite-loud-quiet. Sometimes a beautiful lush blanket is just what you need.