Black Gold – Rush
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It’s hard to have an opinion about Black Gold…the impression that first track ‘Detroit’ is barely identifiable in it’s blandness, and nothing really changes through the rest of the album. Each song seems perfectly crafted to act as background music to a non-event, or an unimportant scene in an MTV-produced indie movie (I’m looking at the likes of you, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist).
It’s a harmless indie-dance album with all of it’s rough-edges surgically removed in final production. Track 3, ‘Breakdown’ has got to be the only time the words ‘I’m having a breakdown’ have carried absolutely no emotional weight with them. Though to be fair, ‘Breakdown’ is also probably the catchiest song on offer here giving it the possible chance of bothering some sort of chart, but everything else is just so vapid and middle-of-the-road that it’s difficult to recommend. Black Gold come off like a Modest Mouse after a lobotomy and a really long, boring bus ride.
There are a few attempts at different genre’s on ‘Rush’, but that only gives a false sense of variety. Regardless of the type of song Black Gold try, they do a dull job of it. Their ‘thing’ seems to be taking the defining elements of a specific genre, breaking it down to the lowest common denominator and recording the resulting drudgery.
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