Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

Fleeing New York

Hollywood Bowl

Label: Release Date: 27/09/2004

Mike_Diver by Mike Diver November 3rd, 2005

Worthwhile word-of-mouth flavour of the last Lord-knows-how-many months, or needlessly praised toilet circuit veterans undeserving of critical salvaging? Until 'Hollywood Bowl' lit up the stereo like the Blackpool Illuminations (or maybe St Marys ladies' rouge-tinted front windows, considering the act in question), these ears forever followed the latter latitude. Now, though, they're forced to reconsider in possession of the hardest of facts: Fleeing New York are a quality outfit.

There's something defiantly retro about 'Hollywood Bowl' - it's pop grunge given a sing-along surf rock makeover - but the choppy guitars and unfussy yet incessant drumming is tuned enough to today's post-whatever preferences to warrant crossover success. Whether said widespread appreciation will follow in the wake of their deserved critical back-slapping is an impossible quandary - fashion's a fickle but essential factor, and Fleeing New York's multifaceted output, demonstrated by comparing the lead track here with downbeat bonus effort 'Here We Stand', ensures that they never sit steadily in one scene - but the band themselves shouldn't ever consider adopting a straight face to satisfy the money men. Theirs is a talent that's sprung naturally and matured over considerable time; to shift perspective when the fruits this one yields are so diverse, yet equally satisfying, would be a crime worth fleeing from.

Note: this CD got jammed in my player and I had to dismantle the thing, so I'm deducting a mark.

  • 7
    Mike Diver's Score
Log-in to rate this record out of 10
Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »


LATEST


  • Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024


  • Drowned in Sound is back!


  • Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020


  • Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter


  • Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing


  • Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alternative must sees



Left-arrow

Beastie Boys

Triple Trouble

Mobback
6685
8487

Hell Is For Heroes

Transmit Disrupt

Mobforward
Right-arrow


LATEST

    news


    Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024

  • 106145
  • news


    Drowned in Sound is back!

  • 106143

    news


    Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Y...

  • 106141
  • news


    Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter

  • 106139

    Playlist


    Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

  • 106138
  • Festival Preview


    Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna...

  • 106137

    Interview


    A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash

  • 106136
  • Festival Review


    Way Out East: DiS Does Sharpe Festival 2019

  • 106135
MORE


    news


    The Neptune Music Prize 2016 - Vote Now

  • 103918
  • Takeover


    The Winner Takes It All

  • 50972

    Takeover


    10 Things To Not Expect Your Record Producer To...

  • 93724
  • review


    The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium

  • 4317

    review


    Sonic Youth - Nurse

  • 6044
  • feature


    New Emo Goth Danger? My Chemical Romance confro...

  • 89578

    feature


    DiS meets Justice

  • 27270
  • news


    Our Independent music filled alternative to New...

  • 104374
MORE

Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2025 DROWNED IN SOUND