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Album Review
by SashaS
7-10-2002
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The Datsuns: 'The Datsuns'
(V2)
The Datsuns – have got rock formula licked!
The Coral and The Music might appear to have finger or two on the pulse of rock zeitgeist in the UK; The Strokes and The White Stripes look like taking a measure of the US market, while from the Australia/New Zealand landmasses we have The Vines, The D4 and The Datsuns… Of the last group of bands, the latter one provides the greatest rush.
The Vines appear to hold back, not let the whole musical madness be freed, the D4 are a tad less restrained but it is The Datsuns that just kicks Mayleen Klaas, bro! Guitar-rock has been around but not only re-hashing of the old, repackaging for new customers, having some fresh attitude to contribute on the eponymous debut disc.
This band’s UK label was in the running to sign Robbie Williams (for the rumoured £80 million – and there should be a law against paying huge wads to the overblown-egos of questionable talent!) and it’s good they didn’t. Imagine how many more bands of this exciting ilk would have been denied a chance because Robbster had the entire bag of mullah?!
Because this is a gem, a huge rawk album that has everything that’s ever been great about the genre. Of the bands mentioned in the first paragraph, this is the real deal! The ‘overnight’ attention (success is yet to hit them big time) has been seven years coming and, perhaps, that’s what’s honed their lust to rock, their drive, their vision! The Datsun family – Christian, Matt and Phil, with ‘French’ relative Dolf de Datsun – are related as The Ramones were and it is this ‘brotherhood’ that bonds ‘em.
Energetic, attitudinal, raw, punky, and yet – rocking it huge! You can feel it rebelling while it goes for different parts of you: groin, heart, head! The largin’ blast that is ‘MF From Hell’, guitaring fury, the sheer power of it infuses adrenaline into your player! ‘Lady’ sounds like something Aerosmith could have done if they had been speeding, ‘Harmonic Generator’ is like Television in their best days, ‘What Would I Know’ starts like a Thin Lizzy track that evolves into a cross between Deep Purple and Golden Earing for the second longest cut on the disc, 5:35 minutes.
Led Zeppelin spirit echoes through ‘Fink For The Man’, ‘In Love’ is an emo-break The Datsuns-style that rocks faster than Coldplay could ever dream before we get back to the final two rock-outs to the maximum! The Datsuns have an incredible knack to combine various elements, from punk, all kinds of rock (hard, pomp, glam), pop harmonising and guitar-solos. It might not compute on paper but it just does on polymer, or live – delightfully, engagingly, timelessly!
‘The Datsuns’ is a rock album you should file under ‘classic’.
8/10
SashaS
7-10-2002
The Datsuns’ album ‘The Datsuns’ is released 07 October 2002 on V2
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