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Indie Track Review: The Blue Collars - 'Happy Pills'
Indie | Monday 3rd June 2013 | Alex
Like everything, ‘it’s good, but’.
‘Happy Pills’ is the debut single from The Blue Collars and it’s good, but then bad, but we can overlook some of the bad stuff.
They give it the right amount of sparkle and that’s just fab – indie groups tend to ramp it up to distorted tinkling but The Blue Collars keep it a notch below, hovering around a glistening metallic-ness. They’ve got as big a thing for dancing as you’d expect and ‘Happy Pills’ might inspire some – it’s a ‘spin-around-hands-in-the-air’ end-of-night track – it’s anthemic. Smooth too, actually – a fist pumper that flows, eased across dynamics by the bass that tumbles in.
It’s dad-rock, though. You’re allowed to enjoy it but not too much, this genre’s for people who discard better music because of some challenging, apparently funny quality. (Salsa-fusion debunkers, I’m looking at you.) They’re marketing it as ‘highlighting youth culture’, what does that even mean? They’re youths singing about youthfulness…so?
Being nothing new isn’t always a terrible thing but The Blue Collars are as moderately rocking as anyone might be, if they played it just as conservatively.
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Written by Alex Dean- @AlexDean94
