When I dove intoRhubarb Rhubarb, the second full-length offering from East Londonian garage rockers The Voyeurs, I heard a plateful of sounds, from Coxon to Bland, which the band must have listened to at least once while recording this album.
To put it in its shortest form, The Voyeurs are just another lo-fi British rock outfit. You’ll hear essences of the Stones (especially on the opening track, ‘Train To Minsk’) and you’ll grin to yourself a little when you inevitably think, “Gee, these guys certainly sound like The Who,” but that’s just about where the novelty ends.
That being said, it’s one of those albums that will fit into your Spotify ‘Britpop/rock’ playlist (don’t act like we don’t all have one), and every time a song finishes you’ll simply forget about it until it pops up again on the next rotation.
A serious question to ask is: after how many albums is it no longer OK to have that rustic eight-track sound in the age of easy track mastering?
Is the sound nostalgic? Yeah. Is it palatable? Absolutely. Will you remember this album a few months from now? Fairly unlikely. This is a safety album.
2.5/5.
