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Pop Levi | Blue Honey (Counter) |
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Written by Laura Hamlett
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Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
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 As it plays through the
headphones, you can see and smell the smoke filling the coffee shop around you.
One part groove-funk, one part
psychedelia, and two shakes down and dirty NYC-style dance-rock, Blue Honey, Pop Levi's American EP, is
at once comfortable and refreshing. This Liverpudlian (who looks eerily similar
to Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno) kick-starts the groove with the title track, a
bass-heavy number. "(A Style Called) Crying Chic" is very '60s
influenced and repetitious-and catchy as all hell. As it plays through the
headphones, you can see and smell the smoke filling the coffee shop around you.
"Mournin' Light" is pure garage rock; this one you'll want to air guitar along
to. Following the down-tempo "Baby Again" (on which you are sure everyone at
the opium den...err, party...was invited to contribute hand-claps of whatever tempo
their inner drum moved to), the EP closes in schizophrenic sing-along style
with "Skip Ghetto." There's whistling, and more clapping, and music you can
genuinely tap your foot along to. While it's not the most cohesive of
collections, Blue Honey shows a depth
and talent that's hard to find in today's musical world of mediocrity. B+ | Laura Hamlett
RIYL: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (the older stuff, not Howl), T-Rex, Brian Jonestown Massacre
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