Amongst Indie music, that graveyard of bland banality littered with clichés and marred in myth, a creative cast of untouchables hide, the diamonds amongst the dirt keeping alive the hope of the annoyed music fans.
The Foals are one example of foundation musicians that breathe life into music and Blue Bloods is their CPR manual. Rhapsodising to these who’s ears droop, saturated with mindless muck. That’s not to say that the foals are reinventing the wheel with Blue Bloods, but much rather sticking to the core musical values that makes indie music rock. Enter stage left the return of meaning. Their music is not hype and hyperbole that lays in wait to surprise you yet more much of much-ness that bored you to tears before. But instead their catchy riffs don’t dominate the track, far from it the haunting vocals of the lead singer Yannis Phillippakis makes you forget the subtle backing music. Blue Blood is a welcome change from indie music that is both unoriginal and soft on content, and is certainly worth a second, third and forth listen.
Jill Scott
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