Review of The Floating Formation EP by thisisnottv

29th Jul 2004

Pleasant, inoffensive and slightly baggy pop is clearly OKJunior's bread and butter and whilst it isn't built to jolly up the blood and incite teenage insurgence it will still find a home in the ears of many who survived the heady days when Madchester ruled the country.

It doesn't do anything for me but that doesn't make it bad by any means. I've never had much of a heart for anything even slightly baggy (which of course makes living in Manchester something of a bind at times) but I can see how it might impress others. The sun kissed melodies and lazy rhythms of In a Car, Raining and Fade are purpose built to accompany late night summer drinking sessions for frazzled but now reformed acolytes of the Hacienda and the four tracks here don't put a foot wrong really (though an unexpected move or two would have made things more interesting). It's throbbing, organic danceability and rolling sonic burps compliment the easy going nature of the songs perfectly.

If 1989 was the year you truly strutted and you now find yourself hurtling toward forty but don't want to give in to your age and start amassing a record collection built of Stereophonics and Robbie Williams albums then this might just be the band to give you hope.

<adam farrer>