Lionrock - City Delirious (Deconstruction)
Another paean to the joys of living in a city. This time its Lionrock
who set their sights on bringing the metropolitan experience to your
door in a cardboard box - minus the cheese. In its favour City Delirious
offers a taxi-rank's worth of destinations, south for the Monkey Mafia
clone Rude Boy Rock, due north for the Sabres loaned rippling techno of
Best Foot Forward and a cheeky joyride in David Holmes car to Soho for
Canal Heist and Zip Gun Rumble - a track desperate for a Michael Caine
cameo. The price of such diversity is inevitably cat-calls of plagiarism
since City Delirious's influences aren't so much worn on sleeves as
tattooed on foreheads making it less a portrait of city life and more of
a Crimewatch photo-fit.
by Robert Lowe
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