Album Review

The Virgins – The Virgins

• 19th Apr 2009

Well they may have the name, but they don’t seem to be much in the way of beginners in a field of music that is also hardly Virgin territory to anyone’s ears.

Listening doesn’t get any easier than this. The Virgin’s recently took part in the Camden Crawl and no doubt must have opened a few ears in the process as they are ideally suited to the kind of event. It’s brash, it’s raw and it comes thick and fast and never at any point really descends into anything other that the commercially live material it ought to be.

Easily a band that would be enjoyed much better in a live situation than on disc however. Not to steal any of their recorded thunder, but music like this was given birth to be heard firsthand.