Artist: Ivyrise
Album: 1000 Feet
Label: Stage Records
Released: 31st August
Reviewed by: Andrew Banks
Hailing from London, Ivyrise have been together as a band since 2007. To date the highlight of their career has been supporting Bon Jovi and playing infront of 60,000 people at Twickenham courtesy of winning a London based newspaper competition. No mean feat in itself!
Their latest single ‘1000 Feet’ is admittedly my first taste of Ivyrise, and they appear to throw in a kind of 80s sounding Def Leppard / Savage Garden hybrid feel. Good or bad, you decide. My opinion is one of indifference. And therein is the problem for me, it’s forgettable, you won’t be looking back on it fondly in a few years, next year or probably not even next month.
I don’t dislike the track itself, it’s pleasant enough, doesn’t offend and I can hear it being played on daytime radio. But it just doesn’t make me feel much in the way of emotion or hanker after listening to it again. Of the three bundled tracks I thought ‘1000 Feet’ was the weakest, the other two being better structured with more to say musically about what Ivyrise are all about. I preferred ‘Over The Moon’ out of them all.
Conclusion: inoffensive, daytime radio thumbs up, but nothing new and won’t change the face of music.
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