Favours For Sailors
Furious Sons

Sick fuck.

This is as near to perfect as music can get.

"I Dreamt.." is the best pop song I've heard in a long time.

it's a bit disappointing really, especially the last paragraph.

7 is a stingy score, and given for the wrong reasons. it's better than that, and better than most british music released for ages.

i hope when my band's album comes out later in the year it actually gets a fair airing rather than some half arsed inaccurate comparisons and a sat-atop-the-fence mark out of ten.

you clearly like this record, it's a shame you haven't allowed yourself to admit how much!

[just my opinion...!]

and very much in keeping with the thrust of the review, which is concerned with everything FFS have going for them should they fulfill their potential.

So, like, if they end up being huge, this EP will get a better score?

If a label fucks them over, is this part of them fulfilling their potential? Or an unseen spanner in the works?

Oh yes people its all about the capitals today! I'm so happy there's loads of Favours for Sailors love. They really are awesome!!

opinions are opinions and all. and i'm not getting peeved because they are my mates, that is completely irrelevant. i just think it deserved a bit more of a fair assessment on its own merits rather than being viewed as some kind of middle point between re-hashing the past and being an indicator of potential greatness. i don't think it is either of these things. i just think its a really good EP. maybe 7/10 is a fair enough score when compared to the great records. but then compared to most other stuff recently, and especially most things british recently it is definitely a 9. as a nation we produce and consume so much shit music, i think the good stuff deserves a bit more credit and support. though don't get me wrong, 7/10 is a good score, and this is clearly a positive review in many ways. and dom, you make a good point about going overboard. sometimes hype can be a bad thing. but again that is something outside the actual music itself.

anyway, whatever. well done for doing some good songs favours for sailors. now go away and take that next step forward by recording a full length album that fulfils your potential!

Best band acronym of all time?

If they progress from this and release an amazing debut album though, then who knows...

Thanks for the review, Dom. It's nice that people are talking about this record. One thing i would add is that it comes as a 12" and CD set on gatefold. I reckon that bumps it up to 11/10, but Dom didn't know that :)

You can order it from us here: www.toughloverecords.com/product.htm and get a free download of the record while you wait for it to arrive (and we still haven't got our copies yet - GZ Media in Czech Republic are taking their sweet time about it - here next week though)

four of them and they hang around South London?

I just bought it and can't work it out.

Has this worked ok for everyone? If you type warmhandscoldheart into the Selecter you'll also get the Favours xmas song (a bit unseasonal now, but still a sweet song!).

than Nottingham innit...

The new haven for Geography teachers?

Where it says

"I told the [something] Irishman the value of the shipment"

let me know, because I have no idea...

That's been bugging me for weeks now.