Freezer Burn
Love’s Executioner LP
Now let’s get some facts straightened out before we get started on this record… Freezer Burn learned to play their instruments after (that’s AFTER) they had booked their first gig. That’s brave and foolish in equal measure and, if I remember correctly, it really showed in their early days.
However, they’ve now managed to elevate their live show into a stunning lo-fi but capable performance of their fabulously experimental songs. I’ve been converted by their live show and so have many others.
I want to love this record. I want to love it like I love their live show. I want the record to caress me and love me back. The problem is, I just can’t love it like I want to because it doesn’t love me.
Maybe they haven’t quite got to the point where they’re comfortable in the studio or maybe it’s because the songs are only meant to be played live, I just don’t know. The result is that the songs don’t come across well. The instruments are fighting with each other and the intensity that rocks their live performances transforms into a chaotic mess.
This record makes me sad. This band are really good and you wouldn’t know it from this recording. Maybe they should have been less ambitious and attempted an EP, where they could have spent more time capturing the essence of the songs rather than fighting the clock to get twelve tracks down.
The songs that come closest to showing off the Freezer Burn sound are ‘RCV’, ‘Soon’ and ‘Answer Me’. The quirkiness comes across well and the vocals are largely left alone, whereas in other songs, they’ve been layered a fair few times, causing the ‘Kylie-Effect’.
If you know Freezerburn, this record will serve to keep you in with a fix between performances. If you don’t know them, don’t judge them by this album.
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