Album Review

Wild Party – Take My Advice/Life’s Too Short

• 17th Nov 2010

Fuzzy, digitally intoned, slow vocal soaring disco rock. This double A sided single is off to a relationship musing, groovy start with ‘Take My Advice’. Vocalist, Lincoln Kreifels, slings in the odd echo to wretch out the bemusement that’s related to a significant other and the full bodied percussive trot gives some texture to this reflective, groove friendly mini-epic.

The Brandon Flowers comparisons will flow like forced criticism from Louis Walsh’s mouth for ‘Life’s Too Short’. Kriefels’ vocals take on a lower register and he dominates this disco-ballad with his earnest ramblings. This lament is about the lack of understanding of an object of desire.

Wild Party shows that they are not just going to ride to success on the back of The Killer’s comparisons. Some instrumental spark and grit, as well as some striking digital touches, take them in a slightly different direction.

Rating: 3.5/5