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Untitled Musical Project: Self Titled |
Contributed By: DeadPunx
Created On: Thursday, 22 November 2007
Hits: 90
 Untitled Musical Project
1. No Love Songs
2. No phoney Thames accents
3. No contrived Northern twang.
Whilst number one might be debatable we are 100% with them on and 2 and 3. Nobody could accuse UMP of being fake, their songs barely exceed 3 minutes long and are played at a whiplash inducing speed. This extended EP practically requires a seatbelt it’s so damn fast.
Technically if this review were to mirror the album then it would be one short sharp sentence that repeats itself a lot, and you would not understand much of it but really like it.
We won’t be doing that however, we will try to dissect it like proper adults.
‘The People Versus Michael Miller’ sets out the UMP blueprint from the start. Dirty twisted riffs, barked vocals and enough distortion to put Kurt Cobain to shame are all mixed together to create what could be dubbed ‘Brat Pop’.
The toys out of the pram feel is continued with the glorious lyrics of ‘A Popular Musical Composition’ “It’s not gonna make it better sit and talk about the weather when the weather do whatever and the weather is SHIT!” We can’t disagree there.
A band called Untitled Musical Project is a bit pretentious, reminiscent of Peep Shows Jeremy calling his band ‘Various Artists’ to fuck up peoples Ipods but their music is anything but conceited.
Tiny razor-sharp rattling Ritalin bouts of pop paranoia this mini-album is the perfect length for anyone with attention span issues. 8 songs, 16 minutes. Done. Also top marks for the song title ‘I May Not Be Jimmi Hendrix But At Least I Am Alive'.
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