01. Amstrad Lions
02. Capricorns
03. Busy Hands
04. Are Lovers (Edit)
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Minnaars rose from the ashes of post-math-alt-rock hopefuls Tired Irie, but have beefed up their sound since, and now their focus has shifted from guitar tunings to the girls dancing in the front row
Their new EP Ideal & Error is a snappy stopgap released shortly before their European tour, and contains a handful of clearly very carefully crafted, but ever so slightly derivative and dated songs. But lets start with the positives: Armstrad Lions is an almost flawless, propulsive indie disco hit which starts and stops in all the right places and makes delicious use of meaty synths and gang shouts Medusa Medusa). Are Lovers, with its hypnotic finger-tapping and bouncable bass line, manages to hit a few similarly sweet spots the way the guitars and the (presumably) triggered drums interlock will leave only those with double hip replacements motionless
But these arent grooves that we havent heard before. Bloc Party (and, to a less frantic extent, Franz Ferdinand) pioneered the modern danceable indie sound with their cut-class guitars and rolling-thunder-like drums, and the aforementioned Foals have long ditched their use of (cliche alert) yelpy vocals and clean guitars playing high-end riffs. There are also echoes of energetic post-punk legends F??W??D, RUSSI?, which isnt surprising considering theirlead singer Tom Woodhead has worked with Minnaars in the past
On Capricorns, the similarity of the vocals to Kele Okereke is such as to be almost distracting, and the hectic nu-rave synth blasts grate after a few seconds. Busy Hands is another kinetic, slogan-heavy Ive been falling into bits/been like this since the Blitz) banger, but its impact is lessened considerably by the lack of dynamics and diversity on offer here. For an EP, two out of four isnt bad at all and those two are genuinely good songs but Minnaars dont manage to display their whole range of talents
