Braindead Lovers (2008)

Review by Toby Hillard

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Every few years a band comes along that completley changes the face of the music scene. Whether it be artistically (Jimmy Hendrix, The Pixies, Underworld) or whether it be commercially (Nirvana, Jet), history has shown that the human race is capable of amazing things.

Braindead Lovers are quite obviously abesent from that list...

As much as I would love to even give Aussie boys Braindead Lovers the benefit of the doubt by saying something along the lines of "Had this been released five years earlier, it might have had more impact" - I simply can't do it without sullying my conscience.

Because there is no real way of sugar coating it, Braindead Lovers are as bland and unoriginal a band you will ever come across. To cement my point - how Braindead Lovers were picked out and given the opportunity to be signed by a label from the barrage of other try-hard Bon Jovi bands they would have played alongside each week at Ding Dong Lounge is beyond me.

Opener Sappers Appetite is promising with a chorus familar, but catchy enough, to define it as it's own product. But from there it's simply a collection of carbon copies - at point sounding like the sort of sterotyped 'Rock' songs which are played in the background of one of those cheesy Saturday Morning Kids Shows like Degrassi : The Next Generation (you know the ones, usually one of the characters joins a rock band and has some kind of 'hit' song).

The sad fact is, there is a big audience out there for this sort of junk. But, at the end of the day, Braindead Lovers will soon blend into the background - continue playing to the same audiences, continue to wear ripped jeans and walk around with an arrogant swagger.

They will also continue to go on, unaware that their look and sound keep them almost unrecognisable from any other band of their ilk.

RATING: 2 out of 5

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