The Rascal’s ‘Out Of Dreams’ doesn’t so much swagger into action as lurch. The big ambitions of the tune’s lolloping bass line never quite succeeds in holding together a band seemingly intent on heading in different directions. It’s as if they’re determined to answer the singer’s “you don’t have to follow” refrain in the affirmative.
There’s a somewhat inexplicable change in tempo two thirds of the way through – a trick they repeat on second track ‘Under The Second Seal’ and several times throughout the E.P. It’s all a little too obvious – the indie-rock equivalent of when Westlife get up off their stools to herald a key change.
Meanwhile ‘Ratcatcher’ and ‘Is It Too Late’ don’t so much wear the influence of the Arctic Monkeys on their sleeves as drape it all over the band in a tarpaulin. Stewart McCullough
Posted on: 27th January 2010
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