Nine Black Alps - Everything is - Album Review

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Nine Black Alps - Everything is - Album Review

Nine Black Alps
Everything is Nine Black Alps have gone balls out of the bath with this their debut album ‘Everything is’. With the music press endlessly dishing out the next new nirvana tag here there and everywhere you really can’t blame these guys for trying. Not saying that this album does not live up to the hype, only I find it rather stupid and ridiculous that the music press insist on comparing anyone to such a classic band (especially when they sound nothing alike). Not only this but unknowingly gearing them up to head the new uprising of a more traditional style of British Rock is just pinning your hopes on something surely, especially when this is such a hard territory to conquer?

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5/10
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Alex Parker