CLOR - Clor Review

They might not always make sense. But even when logic gets fuzzy, the beats stay crisp, and that, Clor know, is the best way to be....full text So comprehensively has the sound of twitchy white funk swept the land that it's as if St Vitus's has replaced the Morris as our national dance and the trickledown effect from Franz Ferdinand's success means that A&R men are still being dispatched to provincial hellholes to find bands obsessed with Gang Of Four, Talking Heads and Orange Juice. If you can coast to success on a well-trodden path, seems to be the attitude, why sweat it carving your own?...full text Synth pop is one of the dominant sounds of the British music scene at the moment, but it would be wrong to condemn Clor as a derivative band ready to cash in on the style of the day. For they have something far more original to offer, their music looking further afield for its reference points....full text