Review

Survival of the fittest could be the motto for the music business and, on this showing, mojoFURY have every attribute required to prosper in its vicious arena. They have long endured, their musical progression become a thing of almost Darwinian beauty. From brutish beginnings, they slowly dragged themselves out of rock’s primordial gloop, metamorphosed from a three-piece into a quartet, struggled through that awkward phase, and now, they are ready to soar.

Souped-up versions of long-time favourites such as ‘Kill Cock Robin’, ‘What Colour’s The Bear’ and ‘The Mann’ are impressive, but – of the old material – it is ‘Pill Pigeon Is An Orange Wheel’ that most forcefully apprehends the listener’s attention. Here, the tender as Elliott Smith centre is cocooned within a blistering, Bronx-style maelstrom of noise. Elsewhere, on the crisply bittersweet ‘Electric Sea’, emotions are laid out as naked and vulnerable as a newborn. However, there are also plenty of new weapons in the armoury to blow you away. Freewheeling over six-minutes, ‘Lemon Marine’ is on the offensive from the get-go, firing into a maniacal trumpet-wielding finale that would do Rocket From The Crypt proud. They even have time for a brief foray into glitchtronica with ‘An Organ For A Friend’.

Intrigue, adventure, intelligence and creativity these are the genetic markers of a band whose progress, up to now, could be measured in small steps. Consider this, then, mojoFURY’s evolutionary quantum leap. Francis Jones

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DOWNLOAD: ‘LEMON MARINE’, ‘DEEP FISH TANK’, ‘PILL PIGEON IS AN ORANGE WHEEL’.
FOR FANS OF: QOTSA, ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, EARLY BIFFY CLYRO.

Posted on: 27th January 2010

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