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yourcodenameis:milo: All Roads To Fault

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  • Type: Album
  • Release date: 10/05/2004
  • Label: Fiction
Fortune favours the brave, so they say. If that's the case, fortune must have a raging hard-on for yourcodenameis:milo. After a number of promising live appearances, their debut release is full of more twists and turns than James Bond's path through a room full of bikini models.

'All Roads To Fault' should have been a safely dipped toe into the punk rock pond. Instead, the five-piece have opted for skinny dipping in shark-infested waters, with songs that lurch from left to right and back again like Hundred Reasons being buggered senseless by The Blood Brothers. It's full of guts and determination and, quite frankly, rocks like not much else. Well, for the first half at least. A couple of tracks on this mini-album do bow to convention - a little singing here, some chugga-chugga there, and a lashing of screeeeeeeeeeeeamo for measure - but the overall feeling of promise is unprecedented. Oh, and the vocals are totally camp. Excellent.

Get moist - yourcodenameis:milo could just be the best thing to happen to UK rock since Marc Bolan wrapped his car around a tree.

  • yourcodenameis:milo 7 / 10
Words: Mike Diver

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yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

did you actually listen to this album??? or just see them live? This is quite possibly the worst review i have ever read.
jontosh2001 | 7 May '04, 09:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

What part of it didn't make sense to you?
Mike_Diver | 7 May '04, 10:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

what is "screeeeeeeeeeeeamo", you racist cunt?
-Raz- | 8 May '04, 22:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

incidentally i shouldve seen this band about 5 times by now but have repeatedly strolled into the gig just as or just after they play the final song in their set. so i don't know what the heck they sound like. until i read your review Mikey D!
-Raz- | 10 May '04, 10:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

sorry mickey but when i saw them live i thought they sucked almighty ass..but thats just my opinion :)
Aimee | 10 May '04, 21:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

i agree. overhyped (by DiS? .....never) and utterly unaffecting. Saw them live. they are shit.
mugglewump | 12 May '04, 13:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

To set thee record a little straighter:

This record is good. It's not one of my favourites, hence the 3 or 3.5 or whatever (I'm not looking at it right now), BUT it's the most gutsy thing to come from a UK rock band since H*R's first ep. That made me jump off chairs in my room; this does too.

However, I too saw them live and was underwhelmed. That doesn't detract from the fact though that this EP/mini-album is pretty darn good.

MD
Mike_Diver | 12 May '04, 13:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

i have to agree, this mini album shows an undoubted amount of promise, admittedly i was mildly disappointed after all the hype.....also was excited to see them live but why dont you go ruin all that for me, grrr
_darren_ | 14 May '04, 00:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

Try Million Dead - they made me jump off chairs the first time I heard them, and they are kind of similar to ycni:m (though a lot more straightforwardly melodic).

I agree - this isn't as amazing as the hype suggests, but the fact that they have tried to do something a bit different from the usual NME approved garage rock or watered down emo formula gets them a big tick in my book. I hope Funeral for a Friend totally selling out before they'd even begun might be the last straw for people sick of the mall-emo fad.

The UK punk scene seems to be witnessing the beginning to be a bit of a backlash against "nu-emo" domination. If you know where to look there seems to be a move back to old school emocore (KidsNearWater, thisGIRL), At the Drive-In style craziness (Million Dead, ycni:m), and wierd kinds of noise and "artcore" (The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg, Ye Wiles). This has to be a healthy thing.
chiaroscuro | 18 May '04, 16:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

i bought it expecting to be disappointed, as i usually am by most bands these days, but listened to the album and think its brilliant....and im a fussy git when it comes to music too!

never seen em live, so cant comment....
woodenboy | 15 May '04, 12:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

Never seen them live, but the album's cool. It grab's you by the balls and throws you against the wall.
A lot more interesting than most stuff out there. Can't see it ending the "nu emo" movement, but contends well. Besides, music is there to evolve, not to wipe out another form of music because it doesn't interest everyone.

Accept Shania Twain - can't stand the bitch.
Oh, and The Rasmus. WTF?
chalks | 20 May '04, 16:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

I'd accept Shania Twain.
timothyspanner | 20 May '04, 18:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yourcodenameis:milo - All Roads To Fault

Oh, by the way I meant "Except", not "Accept".
Complete opposite meanings...what a typo!
chalks | 20 May '04, 18:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply