The GIITTV reviews database 2003-2011
All the historic reviews from the God Is in The TV webzine.
Singles
Panda & Angel - Crooked Rain
Dominic Valvona 03/02/2011
Rating: 3.5/5
Released back in October of last year - I know, it's taken a while to filter through to your reviewer - Panda & Angel's meandering catchy single, manages to surprise, with its switch from heavy laden broody rock, to diaphanous melodies and lyrics.
Opening as a cathartic rocking Howling Bells or early Low, before changing tact and gliding through the melodic inventiveness of Archetecture In Helsinki, as fronted by a serene Annie Lennox; Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain betrays all the signs of melancholic heart-aching anthem.
Companion piece, The End Is Not So, brings to mind The Broken Social Scene, or even Fanfarlo, as the child-like marching band and xylophone led jaunt playfully ambles along until launching into a gravitas building crescendo of bit-crushing drums.
Conceived in a squat, the bands rhetoric proclaims their goal as, “To write songs people like”; a noble gesture, and one that they at least seem to be on the road to achieving.