The Beautiful Girls
Dancehall Days
MGM
Four years after
their last effort, an album which seemed to herald a permanent end to a decade
of touring, decent album sales and general sun-soaked musical frivolity, The
Beautiful Girls return with a new cut. Unfortunately, it does little to
reignite any fire which may have existed before.
Limp and
restrained, Dancehall Days is directionless,
a collection of tracks lacking in any real originality, instead ripping from a
raft of other genres, a jarring hodge-podge of bits and pieces that neither
knows what it is, nor where it’s going.
While a few of the
tunes (‘Until My Kingdom Comes’, ‘Control’ and the title track) are happy
little finger-snappers, they lack the energetic bounce TBG had in their day.
Even if they didn’t, they’d be overwhelmed by the insipid, hollow dub and
reggae beat that permeates the rest of the record, making for a disappointing
effort from a group who should know, and can do, better.
1.5/5
Samuel J. Fell
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