Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry

Nah, he's right on the money.

No way has Billy listened to this properly. "Folky Toils"? Weather is a brilliant brilliant song! In my opinion Mr Hamilton is just trying to stir up contoversy.

That's quite a wild and horrible assumption to make sir, might I suggest you stick it back up your cynical arse.

"That's quite a wild and horrible assumption to make"......I'm afraid in the music industry the words wild, horrible AND cynical are very apt. You obviously did not hear about the whole Broken Records review Mr H did.

Thank you Billy for calling it as you hear it. Its all getting a bit dreary and frightfully middle class with a lot of the same old tired dross endlessly churned out. If i wanted to listen to del amitri or deacon blue then i would. Whats the point in listening to a rehashed version of these bands? Emperors new clothes syndrome.

Thanks for that insight T.Barte. you clearly haven't listed to the album because its about as like del Amitri or deacon blue as David Cameron is like Che Guevara. you speak out of your arse often?

having listened to the album a few times now i can't argue with this review. the production is far short of what you'd expect, maybe they could have done with some of the broken records treatment! just sayin.

Ladymuck im glad you felt moved to reply to my comment. I have listened to it, agree with the review and stand by my statement. This album does sound like the bands i mentioned, deal with it Ladymuck. I saw a few mock ups of that tory wanker as che guevara, did you assist in their campaign? This album is not only the perfect soundtrack for a tory promo video, but its also bland, emotionally numb and very m.o.r. Just like your reply Ladymuck.

T.Barte: "frightfully middle class" Having known the band for ten years or so, I can tell you they are far from middle class. Christ one of their dads runs his own scaffolding company which he helps out with in between tours. Is that working class enough? Oh I know, one of them goes to the bookies now and then. How's that for real grit? They smoke too......As for the Del Amitri thing, when was the last time they used loops and samples? I think a local band like this should be encouraged and supported. They've brought a lot of attention to the city and it's other bands. I'd rather have bands like Meursault around rather than the faux working class posturings of all these View-sound-a-likes that clogg up the city at the moment. The whole middle class thing. Is it just because they're named after a character in a book? Is it? Bet it is. How silly of you.

What exactly is your definition of 'working class" music anyway T Barte? Hip hop pastiches? Banging techno? Nu Metal? Enlighten us.

As for my political leanings, my Grandad spent much of his life from age 14 howking coal out of the ground in Fife, now do you really think I voted for Cameron? (not that anyone in Scotland seems to have thank Christ). Chippy little sod aren't you - any reason for your class angst apart from perhaps a flirtation with the Common People that will last as long as your degree course?

This is a pretty patchy recording of what could have been a fine album. Let's all drop the class hero falsities and move on, shall we?

Big deal. Your mates with them. What else are you going to write? How about looking at it from an outsiders point of view. Read my initial post again and then have a look back over the drivel you have both written as a response. So his Dad runs a scaffolding company. Good on him. It does not mean his son is incapable of making music for tories. Del Amitri were using loops and samples before this band even formed! At least do a little research before you post more nonsense. I do not care what or who they are named after, whats that got do with it? Am i also supposed to go into some anti-uni/'faux' proud defense of whatever my roots maybe rant just to please you? You really are both exceptionally deluded. I do not give a toss what your Grandad did but im heartened your moved enough to tell me. This is a dreary, bland album that typifies the middle class dullness which inhabits this particular genre of indie. It's beige, it's magnolia, it's careful now don't make too much noise. It's for people who go to gigs and complain that its too loud. Where's the passion? Where's the fire? Where's the substance? Its not there. I also know there is much more to the bands of the city than this and (agreement!)the view-type of bands. Yes I have seen a lot of crap bands but I have also seen a lot of great bands over the years, so why should any of us support a band just because they are doing well if we don't like the music? Are we all supposed follow blindly because someone tells us something is good even though we know in our hearts that we disagree? Having friends who gamble you really should both take their advice on knowing when to place a bet and when to take a hit on your losses.
Tiny is as tiny does.

Chill y'all simmer down for real y'hear me now?

Not to argue with T. Barte who is welcome to his or her opinion, but I've heard plenty of people of all classes listen to boring music. Anyhow, he or she clearly knows next to nothing about the band, so it really doesn't matter. Passion? Haha - excellent!

Just to clarify one small point about the production, though: calling it badly recorded just isn't accurate. It may not be to your particular taste and I am not trying to persuade people to like things they don't enjoy, but it was entirely deliberate and a lot of craft went into achieving a sound which the band were aiming for very specifically.

Of course, if you don't like it then you don't like it, but 'patchy' implies incompetence, whereas it's more a case of the band working to an aesthetic which isn't to your taste, which is a bit different in my view.

"it's careful now don't make too much noise. It's for people who go to gigs and complain that its too loud." Barte Mate you obviously haven't been to see Meursault live, or for that matter actually listened to this album. 'Song For Martin Kippernberger"? Whats fucking quiet about that? Whatever they're doing they must be doing something right to divide opinion so wildly. I see Billy's point sort of, but I think it's a step forward not sideways. And Barte, no-one says you should support them, you obviously don't like them (or people in general) but I think the guy was meaning more the press to be behind them. Anyway fuck it, they're playing Glastonbury this year, so it's obvious this review doesn't mean anything.

I think T.Barte must be a smelly old sex pistols fan. Yep that must be it.

"Anyway fuck it, they're playing Glastonbury this year, so it's obvious this review doesn't mean anything."

Yes, but so is Vanilla Ice.

To be fair, the Meursault live show really shouldn't be in dispute here, just a damn shame it didn't translate well in the studio. Was it a studio?

It's translated perfectly in the studio - it sounds exactly as the band want it to sound.

This post is terrifying and pretty rediculous. It's just a review. People are entitled to their own opinion. It's not personal.

It was recorded using their own equipment by them.

Yesss. Vanilla Ice is playing Glasto. See his albums got fucking slated yet he's still playing Glasto so reviews don't mean anything.