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Media Press-cuttings and stuff about the band. Harrogate Advertiser Review: "Are Mellow Gold a weird band trying to be straight or a straight band trying to be weird? Whatever the answer, this ridiculously titled six track CD proves them to be on of the more interesting groups to emerge from what is the best live music scene for original bands in Harrogate for the last 15 years. Intelligent, playful and a little nerdy, one minute lead singer Richard Chatterton and the rest of this sort of offshoot from Eukanuba sound like an angular pos punk funk band from the Gang of Four/Talking Heads era, the next would be modern psychedelicists such as The Coral or Super Furry Animals. It doesn’t all totally work. Baby Blues is trippy but bland while exploitation is the naffest moment on the CD, sounding less like Devo and more like the crap Brutus Gold 70’s funk they’re meant to be mocking. The real dilemma over Mellow Gold lies, ironically, with the two catchiest tracks. Strip away the Flaming Lips-style sonic trickery and The Shipping News and Potato Moon are revealed as a merely big catchy rock track and a grandiose Elton John piano ballad, which doesn’t make them bad I realise. So why would I defend mellow Gold on the hilt? For two reasons, a track called Lyricists and another called My Favourite Drug. Both are blessed with great guitar lines from James Hall, the former the expected sub-Beefheartian blues-funk, the latter a gorgeous shimmering tremolo punctuated by a sudden fuzzed-up grunge in the middle eight. Both are great because they sound exactly right at every moment. They’re the only times on this promising CD when Mellow Gold rise above their influences. Visit www.mellowgold.co.uk." The Daily Prophet - "The best Muggle band around!" The Week and a Halfly Universe - "Was it a plane or a sheep?" |
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