Released: 1995
One group of bands during Britpop were seen as being the "dadrock" bands, most famously Cast, Ocean Colour Scene (see previous post) and their leaders, Oasis.
Formed by John Power after he left The La's, Cast not only took their name from a La's lyric, but also sounded fairly similar, with a kind of fuzzy jingle-jangle sound, heavy on melody.
This, Cast's debut, was a big success and launched a fairly successful career for the band. The album starts off fairly well with single 'Alright', one of the better songs here, and is followed up by the average 'Promised Land' and decent single 'Sandstorm'.
The album then takes a downturn, followed by three pretty boring songs, which are fairly tuneless and sound like filler. Track seven though, 'Finetime', is the album's highlight and was a justified hit single. This is then followed by three more poor songs including ballad 'Walkaway', which despite being a big hit single, is a song that makes me want to stab myself in the ears, such is my hatred for it. To this day it seems to be a song used over footage of teams losing sporting events (i.e. England losing penalty shoot-outs etc).
The album ends with two better, and slightly more ambitious sounding songs, though a bit messy in execution, but overall, this is a fairly bland album. It's not a particularly offensively bad album ('Walkway' aside), but a lot of it is just boring filler songs with the odd better moment. Highly forgettable.
Rating: 2/5
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