Review:

on 2011-04-17 CharlesMartel Said:

I have a couple of digital singles from the Cranebuilders, and "So What Could I Do?" is one of them. While I find those singles interesting and rather enjoyable, I am not sure if I could take delving much further into the band's music than the delving I have so far completed. The reason for that is that, even after two singles, it becomes apparent that the Cranebuilders' musical style is quite derivative, and this is most apparent on "So What Could I Do?"

Now, if you are a devotee of the Velvet Underground then you might be tempted to ask what the problem with being derivative is. Trouble is, while I do not hold the oft-expressed views of some acquaintances slightly older than me as regards the Velvet Underground, nor do I subscribe to the opposite quasi-hagiography of the band. As a consequence, I cannot find myself taking large doses of the band. "So What Could I Do?" is a good enough track, but its obvious attempt at recreating, in the twenty-first century, the sound of a band whose heyday was forty years beforehand, gets a little trying after a while. And try as I might, I cannot get beyond that.

Good but no cigar.
Rating: 6/10