Hey, kids. Do you like the sugary pop choruses of Fall Out Boy? You do? What about the over-the-top grandiose flamboyance of Panic! At the Disco? The keyboard/synth electro of hellogoodbye? How about a sound so pristine, so polished that you could walk it through your local hospital and come out MRSA free? Well then, I give you your new favourite band, Let’s Get It.
To be honest this review could end right there. Summed up in brief, everything you could possibly need to know about the ‘Digital Spaces EP’ is in that paragraph. Essentially it’s everything you’d expect of a Fearless Records band: pop-rock honed to a squeaky clean perfection.
Actually, it’s the moments when Let’s Get It gets playful that tend to stand out the most on this record. Take the Danny Elfman-esque orchestral introduction on opener āDuck Duck Grey Gooseā, or the ‘live audience’ aspect of āCiroc & Rollā. Even the busy electo-hysteria of āMapsā makes for semi-interesting listening. The thing is, these moments aside, there’s nothing here to suggest this is anything but a Decaydance audition. Yes it’s high quality, well produced and almost great, if this is your chosen genre, but to an outsider it’s pretty much maligned and unassuming. And, not wishing to spark the old UK/US debate, in terms of home grown talent it can be argued that both Saving Aimee and Exit Avenue do this just as well from this side of the pond.
Ultimately Let’s Get It has a desired audience and every facet of the band being directed that way. Nothing wrong with that. The ‘Digital Spaces EP’ is decent enough as far as your pop-rock goes but isn’t going to spread beyond the self-imposed boundaries of that particular genre.
Alex