| Artist |
| The Bedroom Project |
| Title |
| The World Is Not Watching |
| Format/Cat |
| n/a |
| Label |
| UPR Records |
| Style |
| new wave/rock |
| Date of review |
| 3 October 2008 |
| Reviewer |
| Anya Hastwell |
| Rating |
| 7/10 |
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The Bedroom Project apparently have a philosophy which unites the band: they believe, as humans we are walking in the shadows of the people we could be ... but sadly never will be. Ah, I know the feeling. But there are some things I really never could be, even if I wanted to – 5'8" for example, I'm never going to grow any taller, not now. How life would have been different... But all those other things are explored in the album by this Plymouth-based band. Influenced by a veritable melange of musical styles (punk, alternative, swing, rock, pop, blues and jazz). It's all very angst-driven for "There Is No Shelter", then things calm down for "Everything You Need". It's a bit 'nu punk', like they're trying to sound like a Californian surf punk but from an English seaside town. It's very energetic, and maybe I'm just not and getting old instead, but then it gets all Rage Against The Machine with "Wall Street In Flames", and it's whole lot more interesting with loud shouty bits interspersed with low quiet serious bits. Hmm, it's almost worse to condemn a band with faint praise rather than an out and out thumbs down, but it is just that - alright. Neither outrageous enough to truly innovate, or awful enough to remember for all the wrong reasons, it passes by innocuously like another episode of Brookside. But I'm slightly worried that The Bedroom Project could actually be doing the thing they urge others not to – and are walking in the shadows of the people they could be. But I'm sure they'll do fine.
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