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General Fiasco
Artist Icon Buildings (2010)
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Buildings is the debut album by Northern Ireland trio General Fiasco, and which was released on 22 March 2010. The band launched the album at the Mandela Hall in Belfast on the night of 21 March. The album appeared briefly at number 77 in the UK Albums Chart.
Between 2009 and 2010, the band were constantly recording, and by mid 2009, they planned to release their debut album independently but the independent release was scrapped after being signed to Infectious Records in 2009, many songs that were re-recorded, the first of which was 'We Are The Foolish' and was released as the band's first single's through Infectious Records. There were over 20 songs recorded for the album but only 12 made the cut. Omitted tracks included: "Sell Yourself," "Maybe I'm A Little Bit Strange," "I Like It When You're Naked," "Get Me," "Little Doors," "A Wise Decision," and "Desert Hearts."
The first official single to promote the album was Ever So Shy. The single was a success which earned the band daytime airplay on stations such as BBC Radio 1 and regularly being featured on MTV.
Owen Strathern said in an interview "(the album) reflects the frustration felt watching friends succumb to alcohol and doing nothing to better their lives. It's all quite upbeat, poppy and rocky but the contents are all pretty bleak," says General Fiasco's Owen Strathern, "It was being aware of everybody wrecking themselves and not realising it. I'm sure everyone has something they really want to strive for, something they really want to achieve and it's the frustration of not being fit to achieve it yourself and watching people not even try."
The album was launched at a sell-out gig at the Mandela Hall in Belfast on the night of 21 March 2010 and was released in HMV the following day.
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General Fiasco fall into a category of rock bands that’s grown broader and deeper ever since the likes of Snow Patrol and Coldplay nailed their formulas and became radio mainstays: the bit-part players in the grander commercial indie picture. Theirs is a sound that’s immediately comparable to dozens – sorry, hundreds – of similar outfits, tidy choruses bookended by perfunctory verses and lyrics that paint a scene of contemporary living that’s recognisable by the masses. It’s easy, effortless fare, as digestible as a sensibly balanced meal and just as forgettable. It’s on the radio for three minutes, you like it, but never seek out further information. Because… Sorry, what were we discussing?
Hailing from Northern Ireland, the trio have been on introducing radars for some time – on this evidence, though, it’s hard to determine exactly why given the abject absence of originality. Buildings features three of four singles to date, and in perfect first-record fashion serves as a ‘til-this-point summary of its makers’ achievements. Of these songs already released as standalone entities, We Are the Foolish is the most immediately grabbing – appropriately, it opens proceedings here. There’s an air of The Enemy in anthem mode about it, but also backing yelps reminiscent of rather more critically approved acts such as The Kissaway Trail and Mew.
Much of Buildings does follow a straighter line well trodden, though, and its meat-and-potatoes make-up, while accomplished enough, simply doesn’t showcase a band deserving of highlighting above so many other domestic acts scrambling for audiences at the same level. Echoes of The View bounce around numbers like Ever So Shy and I’m Not Made of Eyes – perhaps it’s something to do with vocalist Owen Strathern’s pitch, but despite obvious accent differences there’s definitely a little Kyle Falconer about him. The thick strings of Sinking Ships contrast awkwardly with the man’s words – it’s a recipe that’d suit a softer-voiced lead singer, but General Fiasco are clearly more comfortable with comparatively raucous compositions.
Which, relatively speaking, aren’t actually that raucous at all. A collection of mostly mid-paced songs that leave no impression whatsoever, Buildings is the very epitome of a term coined some time ago, but far from being revealed as redundant: landfill indie. And at the rate these acts continue to emerge, deliver only mediocrity and subsequently slip from view, we’re going to have to think about exporting our rocking wastrels sooner than later.


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