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THE ALICE BAND - One Day At A Time
From the opening jingly-jangly, Byrds like guitar chords and squeaky-clean vocals; you can smell the big money production sheen on this record. New female pop act, The Alice Band will fit nicely into the ready-made market alongside similar bands like The Corrs or Dido. This is bland, middle of the road and soulless pop music that should appeal to the same fan base for inoffensive and boring melodic sounds, with its sweet melodies and tried and tested formula. One Day At A Time has sweet melodies in abundance, but they're instantly forgettable and boring. This is a carbon copy of a Corrs song, minus the Irish flutes and fiddles. The real problem with this single is that throughout the course of the songs, there's not one moment when they sound genuinely excited or passionate about the music they are playing, it's as if this is a boring day job and not a pop song. Your Eyes, is more of the same sound, all slick production but no passion or sense of excitement in the music. And just to prove that they can actually sing and aren't just some manufactured act, there's an accapella version of Neil Young's, After The Goldrush, tacked on at the end to prove their credentials. This is boring, throwaway and bland pop music.