Album Review

General Fiasco – Unfaithfully Yours

• 26th Jul 2012

The name General Fiasco brings to mind an image of a Spanish speaking moustachioed dictator with a penchant for cigars rolled on the thighs of Cuban virgins. In fact they are a scrawny collection of upstarts from Northern Ireland with a penchant for twiddly guitar driven, radio friendly power pop.

Whilst Glasswerk have been championing these boys for a while, this the first I’ve heard from the Fiasco lot (although this is their second full length release) and on first listen I had to check the gender of the vocalist as I had incorrectly assumed he was actually a she.

‘Unfaithfully Yours’ is an album most definitely about what comes next after that first flush of youth, when the weight of the world begins to bear down just that little bit heavier and the realisations of adulthood creep in around the edges of innocence.

Riding the line between Phoenix’s massive ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ and recent success story, ‘Two Door Cinema Club’ this is an album of undeniable pop hits, sure to break through into mainstream daytime radio 1 playlists et al. It’s nothing new, but it’s energetic indie for the masses displaying such youthful exuberance it’s hard not to get drawn along in current.