Amazon.co.uk Review: The debut album from London town's latest gang of hip young gunslingers, Chat and Business screeches into life with a sound like fingernails scraped bloodily down a blackboard. Fear not, though--it's merely Ikara Colt's contrary way of redrawing the boundaries. Frustrated by the mainstream aspirations of modern indie, these four sharp-suited insurrectionaries have written an album that should rightly sit like an ugly scar on the face of the mainstream. An unholy mix of post-punk touchstones like Joy Division The Fall, and The Pixies, bound together with treble-heavy no-wave production values and stern militant stance, Chat And Business hammers its point home with an unnaturally sharp focus. The opening "One Note" does pretty much what it says on the tin, a one-chord clatter of yelping insouciance and bloody-knuckled guitar scree with edges so angular they could cut glass. "Rudd" thieves a leaf from Mark E Smith's book of non sequiturs ("Short-wave radio! Cheap magazines!" they shriek, as one). And the excellent "Sink Venice" is Ikara Colt's one impassioned stab at getting a hit, an addictive scream-a-long that hooks its talons around your ears and refuses to let go. It's an unashamedly messy, scrappy debut--but you'd better believe, making a bloody racket is a serious business.--Louis Pattison
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Rating: - A forgotten classic
It makes me sad to see that no-one has reviewed this stunning album since someone dismissed it as another "New Rock Revolution" also-ran back in 2003. It's so much more than that. The band always insisted that they'd split up within 5 years and sure enough, at the start of 2005, they did. But they left behind this ... Read More
Rating: - Its ok i guess!
The album as a whole is good, 'Rudd' being the best song by far. But it seems to get tiresome towards the end and repetetive. Hardcore fans of the Strokes, Hives, Datsuns and the rest of the new rock revolution bands, will enjoy this more than me most probably and welcome it to there CD collection. But if you have had ... Read More
Rating: - A short stab of something new!
Well, here we are. Hopefully soon, you too can own one of the greatest album of this decade so far! The album is delightful through and through, with the slow pounding catchiness of *city of glass* to the furious mish mash of guitars and vocals in *bishop's son* and *pop group* this album caters for a taste of the new, ... Read More
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