British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

Artist: British Sea Power
Album: Do You Like Rock Music?
Genre: Indie Rock
Rating: 2.5 of 5


Before I dive into this I'd like to mention that I generally leave my equalizer flat. I do this because when I'm listening to music I like to hear everything the way it was recorded. I find it gives a more accurate version of what the artists wanted to put across. However naive this idea is there you have it.

This album started quite nicely with a momentous intro song that builds and builds and builds. From here we are launched into "Lights Out For Darker Skies" which has a few transitions and nicely executed bridges. By the fourth track I start to notice that some of the production feels off. I actually had to take a look and double-check the Producers on the album. The album gives credit to the band and Graham Sutton. Sutton helped with the last album but the band was not on the last album.

I found the drums to be much too loud throughout the album, especially on tracks such as "Waving Flags" and "The Great Skua". "The Great Skua" could have been a nice quiet instrumental if the drums hadn't over powered them. There was also quite a bit of experimentation with effects and in many cases they seem to drag things along to provide room for this exercise ("Down on the Ground" and "We Close Our Eyes" both drag on).

All this fooling around payed off in a few places and I did enjoy the coming of realization in "Canvey Island". Unfortunately there wasn't enough pay off overall.