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Indie | Wednesday 5th June 2013 | Alex
I’m writing this as a favour to someone. That’s odd for two reasons – first, I’m not nearly important enough to have people ask favours of me, usually. Second, that someone isn’t John Hubbard.
It’s not great, but it is interesting – I’d just have said no if it wasn’t. It’s got about 400 views on Youtube which is really, really low-key, and I’m confused. It’s great if a track can do something new but I’ve always maintained that it’s not essential, and ‘Backs Against the Wall’ is like Oasis, but worse. That it’s like Oasis at all is bit impressive though.
But what’s with the bolted on rap? It’s teetering on out-of-time, and “it’s history, like yesterday!” doesn’t even work - ‘it’s chemistry, like what’s missing’ – that’s not good, but the first isn’t even capable of being judged, and I’m not a rapper. Actually, he needs to rap-ify most of it.
‘Backs Against the Wall’ here –
Written by Alex Dean - @AlexDean94
