Mazarin - We're Already There

Review by Rachel Cawley

"Who wants to be oblivious? / The new American apathy" sings Quentin Stoltzfus on the opening track of "We're Already There". Sounding like some echo of consumerist twenty-first century America, an advert offering blank anonymity to the lethargic disinterested American youth. And yet, in context of twenty-first century Britain, this is the kind of album that can be met with disinterested apathy itself. Neither a post-post-punk jagged edge skitter of pop, nor a freakily experimental folk troupe meander, worn at the heels American rock can slide away completely un-noticed. Despite the immediate appearance of standard-fare alt pop/rock simplicity, as is often the case, the interest lies in the detail, and there is plenty of it.»