Toronto - Very late on this one, but better late then ever. I have listened to The Whip’s X Marks Destination album quite a bit this week and I am proud to hereby announce that it’s pretty decent album. I had previously songs of this Manchester band on compilations such as Kitsune Maison and remixes of their songs such as the Crystal Castle’s remix of the single Divebomb. Both were pleasant. As you might have assumed by now, they are an electro/dance kind of act similar in styles to that of LCD Soundsystem, The Infadels and Simian Mobile Disco.
All in all those are good comparisions, but what does that exactly mean? I don’t know. There’s base, theres beats, it doesn’t overwhelm you, there is a guy singing and I guess it’s a bit like 80s New Order, but not as good. If I were to provide visual imagery for this album, I visualize driving on a road in the middle of the night and watching the painted stripes fly by. However, that is the imagery I get for most electro songs. What am I saying? I don’t know. The songs you want to listen to on this album are “Trash”, “Save My Soul”, “Divebomb” and “Sister Siam”.
3/5
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