Absolute Noise - 2006-03-30

Some Stairs Might Lift Off

Put your Converse shoes on and bring your skate board. Here are the Spiral Stairs : the kind of band which make pop-rock music with really good melodies. This ain't revolutionary but it is quite fun and punchy. Songs such as You and me and alcohol (great title + my favourite song of the band) or Summer in my shoes are perfect tunes for people who like to clap their hands singing to themselves "oohoo oohoo" after every chorus.

The band has already released six demo albums, all available on their website. Plenty of songs, then. Plenty of potential hits. Let the gladness begin, their latest record, has just been released this year. Gluesquare Companions is the opening title : it is a good example of how they sound.

I could have end this post there but I have to mention an anecdote. The kind of story I would have written in introduction if I were a real journalist : one of the guy who founded Spiral Stairs in 1998 is Carl Dalemo... the bassist of the band Razorlight ! You know, the ones who did the songs Rip it up or Golden touch. One of the regular NME's "best new band in the United Kingdom". Amazing.

But is there someone here who can explain to me why Razorlight met such a big success while Spiral Stairs remain confidential ? Do you really consider the English band better than this Swedish one?

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