The Jeevas new album 1-2-3-4 is a work of insanity. Although a quick scan of the album’s reviews shows me that there is nothing original in what I’m about to say I’m going to say it anyway (coz that’s the kind of guy I am). The term “retro” does not even begin to describe what is going on here. In my head I had clocked their first three songs as showing influences of The Who, Donovan, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, The Kinks, the Rolling Stones…. you see where this is heading. I’m no muso – anyone with a passing acquaintance of these bands will spot the similarities straight away. But “retro” implies that our hero, Crispian Mills, is somehow deliberately putting these musical influences into a blender and serving them up to us with a knowing wink. رقم الحظ The more I listen to this album, the more I’m convinced that he isn’t doing this, that by some weird timeslip ,he actually believes he is living in the early part of 1975. There’s just too many, too obvious stylistic lifts. My mind cries out: “You can’t do this.” But he does. And does it again. And again. And again. It’s not the work of a sane man; he probably talks to Marc Bolan every day: “Hey man, how’s the album comin’ along? Have you heard this riff, dude?” It is like the last thirty years of rock music never happened – and it’s weird listening to it. مجموعة يورو 2024 I have to admit – it makes me laugh. And I’m getting to like it a lot. روليت اونلاين The tunes are on one level so obvious that your mind gets most of the way around them on listens one or two – and you think well that’s a bit crap. But another few listens and more of the melodic subtlety grabs you and you find them whizzing around your head days afterwards (a bit like Elf Power in this respect). So if you like this period of music and have a curiosity about the outer fringes of rock lunacy, this is definitely worth a listen. And, let’s face it, with the paucity of decent music out there at the moment, by comparison this could be a work of insane genius.