Alternative Ulster Railway Architecture Album Review Silvery

Published on 1st August 2010 (IE)

Media title : Alternative Ulster

“Rest easy, people of England, your football team may be firing blanks but your purveyors of offbeat pop are still diligently toiling away at the coalface of eccentric tuneage. Silvery have immersed themselves in the canon of English space-rock, producing compositions that cut across Two-Tone, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and XTC before they went all Sergeant Pepper. �A Deconstruction Of Roles� is under-pinned by a Specials rhythm and horns, �The Nod� is pantomime chicanery whose only fault is that it compares unfavourably with similar �cor blimey missus� pop efforts, but the trick is carried off better on �Sparks And Fire�. �An Account Of The Raising Of A Spirit� is a vaudevillian