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| Nowtoronto |
 Whenever a musical subgenre becomes commercially successful, there are opportunistic musicians who say, “Hey, I can do that, too.” Likewise, Manchester’s the Whip take the Editors’ approach to the indie electro aesthetic: slick production, some bona fide hooks, embarrassing lyrics and an overarching authenticity problem.
While opener Trash sounds like the sort of thing Bloc Party should have done after Silent Alarm, most tracks are hurt by a real lack of lyrical depth. Case in point, on Throw It In The Fire singer Danny Saville laments, “I can’t go home, and I can’t stay here” – basically the same philosophical problem Semisonic grappled with back in 1998....full text |
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| Spin |
| X Marks Destination charges out of the gate with "Trash," a snotty, exhilarating dance-rock rave-up with surly frontman Bruce Carter repeatedly snarling, "I wanna be trash" like he's threatening world devastation. Sadly, nothing else on the Whip's debut matches that electrifying outburst, as the Manchester, England quartet downshift into a less savage, more sensitive sound often verging on generic synth pop. If they want to rise above adequate, the band should study the four remixes appended to the U.S. edition of the album, which add excitement by jacking up the chaos....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Gorgeously minimal electro of the early 1980s persuasion continues to bounce around every other new band. But while blurps and beeps usually add a sheen of innocent charm to proceedings, they don't in the case of Manchester four-piece the Whip. Prolonged plays of their debut album suggests they're more like a cut-price Reverend and the Makers. We begin with frontman Bruce Carter singing "I wanna be trash", on opening track, Trash, with a voice full of charmless grit and holler. Then we move on to Frustration, which suggests a weekend holed up with New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, only without the magic that album provides. Elsewhere, Fire has a certain silvery rush, Sirens has a pinch of anthemic clout and Divebomb squelches with the best of the electronic brood. But the lack of personality running through all these tracks suggest a band not actually chomping at the bit....full text |
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