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Get Back Guinozzi! - Carpet Madness

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The band seem to drip with innovation as they continue to surprise and alter what we expect.

FatCat Records, 26th October 2009 / By Laura Routledge
Get Back Guinozzi! - Carpet Madness Get Back Guinozzi! are a quirky French-meets-English five-piece that fuse electro kookiness with European overtones. They delicately dabble with the quirky foreign simplicity of CSS and the indie eccentrics of Those Dancing Days, but like decaffeinated coffee or food you’ve cooked for yourself, there seems to be something missing, something that reduces their appeal.

It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly, the band contain many of the ingredients that work so well for the aforementioned outfits, yet tracks like ‘Go Back To School’ indulge childish chants that toxically saturate, and ‘King’s Song’ sounds like Kate Bush trapped (against her will) amongst some disappointingly damaged instrumentation.

But Get Back Guinozzi! are in fact likeable, and as their diverse influences surface and comparisons to the likes of Animal Collective can also be derived, the debut pans out as a schitzophrenic production with sudden lyrics demanding "Don’t get mixed up / I am fucked" and an entire minute dedicated to deep erotic breathing.

Credit where credit's due, the band seem to drip with innovation as they continue to surprise and alter what we expect; they veer from the mainstream and stick two fingers up at conventional structure and genre, leaving listeners unsure what to make of the musical whirlwind, but intrigued as to what the five-piece will deliver next. Rating: 6/10

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