Various Artists - What Noise Do You Wanna Make

Rachael Tan

Various Artists
What Noise Do You Wanna Make
(Noise Singapore)

This free compilation is the fruit of a Singapore government initiative that partnered ten unsigned artists with veteran producers in a ten-week apprenticeship. With studiowork helmed by luminaries like Nick Chan (MUON, I Am David Sparkle) and Patrick Chng, you’d think that youthful freshness would teem forth. Alas, no amount of indie fingerprinting can overlay cruddy songwriting, which appears with unfortunate frequency here. Of the dour lot, only EN-X’s emo rock befits their forlorn tunes while Roland Lim’s electronica maximises some twitchy palettes effectively. For everything else, this noise is like static.
Chris
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If you like this also check out The Underground, Electrico
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*Taken from Junk's May 2009 issue