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Type: Album Release date: 29/09/2008
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Anyone reading this that has been tricked into believing Iglu & Hartly are “just a bit of fun” and said “That song is actually rather catchy...” PLEASE SEEK HELP. You are suffering from a severe case of Radio One-induced 'Familiarity not Fondness' disease. Solitary confinement is the only cure. To mince no words; Iglu & Hartly are perhaps the worst band to reach mass acclaim since their musical forefathers Crazy Town (and they had a rapper who called himself Shifty Shellshock).

Everything about the band screams corporate soulless jock-rock horror, from the topless live performances spewed on every TV show going to the band's MySpace page featuring a countdown to the album release date amidst links to Bebo, Facebook, Youtube and Street Team pages. It’s a multimedia assault on the nation's senses and like the spineless cretins so many people are they have caved in and started buying the damn bands whole shtick.

Said shtick is this: Red Hot Chilli Peppers funk guitars meets Beastie Boys teen party raps. It’s all achingly nu-metal without the angst or sense of irony. There is a show currently airing on BBC2’s youth orientated Switch section called _Scene Stealers_ in which one member of a ‘tribe’ has to infiltrate another, so an emo kid must become a chav for the day for example. Iglu & Hartly sound like Stifler from the _American Pie_ films trying toe curlingly hard to become a rapper. Everything sounds unprofessional and done on the cheap to maximise profit for the bosses. 90% of _& Then Boom_ lacks even the basic hooks of the aforementioned ‘In This City’.

The bands two rappers go by the names of Jarvis Anderson and Simon Katz both of whom appear to take their vocal inspiration from somewhere between Black Eyed Peas ‘My Humps’ and Fred Durst at a keg party. It’s sloppy, mono paced and utterly inconsequential. What is truly astonishing about this album is not its lack of quality; there are countless awful bands in every town in the world. It is the fact that said rubbish has infiltrated its way onto a relatively respectful label (Mercury is the home to, amongst others, Arcade Fire and Ryan Adams) and into peoples homes and MP3 players. The whole record sounds like an over extensive home demo packed full of bad ideas, poor musicianship and a vastly out of date concept. Why it was not thrown out of the nearest window is a mystery.

I might be preaching to the converted here but someone has to stand up against soulless tripe like this. There is not a single redeemable factor to be taken from _& Then Boom_ ( - even the title is nonsensical) and all parties should take a long hard look at themselves. Corporate, bandwagon jumping, money grabbing opportunism is one thing but this is just an insult to the whole nation, a joke nobody seems to have caught onto. Iglu & Hartly are collectively giving the nation a wedgy and nobody seems to even care, that is why this is the worst album of the year.

I agree completely.

This is absolute tripe. Good work mate.

why o why o why!

is this even getin reviewed?

frat boy pap rap

fnar fnar

lol

this seems to have passed me by

but i'm intrigued as to how bad this is...

Amazing!

I can't help it but there's something strangely enjoyable about listening to songs that are THIS bad

Without having heard the album, I have absolutely no doubt in my mind

that this review is spot on. Shockingly, there's been a few threads pop up on the music board in support of In This City

Awful band

i'm not sure i've ever heard any of their stuff but

now i really want to hear some of this album to see how bad it is

What a load of bollocks

you don't review something zero out of ten. This is meaningless nonsense.

Way to ruin DiS's reputation as a serious music site.

but..

what if the world is better off without this CD? Does it still warrant points? I understand you must understand and be critical of the artist intentions when reviewing a record, but god, have you heard this? It makes me shudder. I have no idea how any reasonably intelligent person would consider this crap 'worthwhile' in any stage of production.

I'm

still gonna read DiS even though they said a shit band is shit.

I may have wee'd myself

laughing at this a bit.

0/10 seems 100% fair to me.

Def Leppard

I feel the same about Def Leppard's 'Hysteria' album..!

Have to say

I don't remember Papa Roach or Limp Bizkit having any sense of irony...

i agree

but this review wasn't that well written in terms of analyzing the music or why its really bad
sorry

this review

makes me want to listen to them. have i missed something here? why have i never heard of this?

ok

i just listened to 1.01 mins of the first song on myspace and vomited. a worthy review....

I'm sorry, but I think...

...that mixing early Faith No More with early Red Hot Chili Peppers and Crazy Town is pretty on point.

cheer up moker

way to speak like an american already.
see what i did there?

these guys need to be destroyed

this review is a step closer to it, these plebs wont be around this time next year

lol

they sound like Why?

Thats my blog

I put it on there last week when I wrote the review.

Nah this review is a crock of shite

Me going "arrrrgghhghghghghgh" into a microphone for an hour might warrent zero out of ten as it has absolutely no substance or meaning or value at all.

Composed songs with lyrics and melodies deserves more than a reviewer to go "yeah, this muic is like souless or something because you know, it is. 0/10" without even talking about the songs in any detail as to why it might suck or where it's generic or how it fails as a recording.

This review is 100% pointless. In fact, if I was to review this review, I'd be tempted to give it zero, but, realising this is a meaningless, overly opinionated reaction I wouldn't. I'd give it 2. As in number two.

Can we never have a review like this again please?

^^^ lol

ActauLOL

Okay, it's a bad album and the review makes this clear

and I don't wish to sound like a twat, but what was all that talk about Dis focussing on the music it loves? What with the staff leaving and everything else.

Also, reviews of albums like this, done like this, just leave a bad taste and serve little purpose, IMO.

ha the number is not fair

farting into a microphone renders a 0

2 at the most though, one mark for playing the instruments and 1 marks for being able to say words

Pfft, bands like MGMT (who are good) get a bit more legit

and stuff like this is bound to come out the woodwork.

Its not totally cack. Its just a bit bland.

i am astonished

by quite how shit this band are

the rapping made me laugh

i could make a better album with just me and a triangle.

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