General Fiasco - Rebel Get By

If feeling generous, General Fiasco might warrant the epithets “competent”, or perhaps “unpretentious”, but one listen to the vapid indie-by-numbers of Rebel Get By and the ruse would be up: for “competent” read “bland”, for “unpretentious” read “uninspired”. Their website proudly boasts of supporting “massive acts such as One Night Only, The Enemy and the Pigeon Detectives,” suggesting their limitations far more succinctly than this bored reviewer, aligning them with past wooden-spoon indie mediocrities like Mumm-Ra or Ripchord. Of course, they may yet win over the masses, but on this evidence 'General Fiasco’ is an apt two-word summary of their forgettable sound. [Chris Buckle]