Mavis – The Mavis Crisis
This is a nice little album here from the indie pop band Mavis. The main vocalist is a male and then the backing vocals come from a female, called Claire Dembry who also plays the viola on this CD. The instruments give the songs their poppier element with catchy, and a very upbeat tune that will stick in your head for ages, then the indie comes in with the vocals which are very powerful and are sung ast points with a Noel Gallagher voice but at others with a Ska sound like Madness. As it is indie pop, some of the songs take a more poppy approach than indie whereas others contain full on indie so it is a good album to because you can listen for changes in style and there is enough in every song to keep you entertained for hours. There are 12 songs on this CD and each song is different with many different things to take in from it. I am not normally a big fan of indie but this album really opened my eyes to the quality of music that indie produces and I am sure that I will be listening to a lot more indie bands in the future. These songs are interesting because you can really listen to the lyrics and think about the emotions that the band were feeling at the time and it is actually quite a fun thing to do. I enjoyed listening to this CD because it was really mellow and it really chilled me out, I am sure that this album will often end up playing when I am feeling a bit down or am in a mood. I will be looking out for more releases from this band in the future because I really liked them and can se them getting on things like MTV2 and Top Of The Pops in a few years time. Check out this band if you are even remotely interested in indie because I am sure that you will find this CD enjoyable. In fact even if you don’t tend to listen to indie check this band out because I don’t normally but I really liked this band and it is obvious that they have a lot of talent.