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Scanners Raw

Scanners: Raw

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by Alex Denney
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 05/11/2007
  • Label: Dim Mak

Here, as they say, is a dilly of a pickle: London four-piece Scanners are featured on this fair website this week, in an interview contriving to whet your appetites for their brand of electro-pop-rocking shlock. And I don’t like their new single. I mean, really.

But DiS is a democratic beast, so here’s my tuppence worth on ‘Raw’, a generic-to-the-nth-degree shit-missile of rock clad in ill-fitting leathers and bolstered by wacky electronics. It’s catchy in a way that will pain all but the most musically illiterate; an embarrassingly slight distillation of new wave clichés that sounds like bad Metric, the sort of mobiles-aloft, pretend rock that soundtracks gigs where Marshall stacks only serve to blow people’s hair in ever more attractive formations and Fearne Cotton nods along in sage approval.

In a word: no.

  • Scanners 4 / 10

Saw them supporting Asobi Seksu

in brighton and they were gash.


saw them in brighton

and 'gash' is harsh. They took themselves quite seriously though. Very Throwing Muses 'inspired' shall we say...


*shrugs*

i thought they were pretty good live, some entirely unnecessary monitors on stage/ a bit of indie pretentiousness but the songs themselves were pretty catchy

there wasn't any mobile waving either strangely enough...


asobi

shat on them, no?


Gash is Harsh,

i agree. I just couldn't stand to look at them with their A-Level art installation and all. I left the front after about three songs and they sounded better when you couldn't see them.


They weren't so bad at Asobi Seksu

Though the TVs weren't necessary, nor was the latter half of their set. The first few tracks they played were more than half-decent.


saw them supporting Asobi Seksu

I really liked them.


i like em

i have the album and think it's very good. should appeal to fans of howling bells or duke spirit.