The 60 Second Review
April 18, 2008 by Mark
This is the first of what I hope will be a regular feature: the 60 second music review. The idea is a basic enough one; hit play, hit the stopwatch and get writing. This is an experiment more than anything, as I’ll tinker with the time limit, the format and the subject to find a system that works.
I’ll be using the 60 seconds to compose my review, and then a few odd seconds afterwards to correct any misspelt words/punctuation that I may have overlooked my haste. With these, I don’t really intend to give the usual ‘XXXX are a 4 piece acid funk band from Hartlepool,’ as I’ll be dwelling on the feeling and opinions I get based on the music.
As it’s really a case of writing what comes into my head with a strict time limit, they may take a more abstract form as opposed to the conformist left to right, sentence and paragraph structure and I think it’ll be interesting to see how it pans out. I’m hoping it’ll effectively be ‘journalistic poetry’.
To kick things off and give you a taster, I’ve chosen Foals’ debut album ‘Antidotes’.
An album that you can’t help but groove along to
Nonsensical lyrics that need to be sung out loud
Definately not one for public transport as you’ll be left looking like an idiot
Angry and roaring anthemic tunes mixed with almost soothing electronica ballads
Will it catch on? Of course not, but watch this space.
