The List - Which Bitch? review
Rated 4/5
Packing indie festival anthems, bar room garage, cheeky backstage ditties, stadium rock and orchestral grandiosity The View’s follow-up to 2007’s Hats off to the Buskers has it all – all besides a coherent identity that is. As an album Witch Bitch? is all over the shop, with 14 disparate tracks united only by a familiar upstart attitude, unchecked ambition and Tayside patter. Producer Owen Morris is on board again and can probably take some credit for the winning largess, along with a portion of the blame for some more poxy moments, while it is the orchestration and range of instrumentation that raises the whole project to ‘project’ status and makes this a worthy follow-up to a platinum selling debut, and a promise of future greatness.
By Mark Edmundson, The List (Issue 621), 22 January 2009
Packing indie festival anthems, bar room garage, cheeky backstage ditties, stadium rock and orchestral grandiosity The View’s follow-up to 2007’s Hats off to the Buskers has it all – all besides a coherent identity that is. As an album Witch Bitch? is all over the shop, with 14 disparate tracks united only by a familiar upstart attitude, unchecked ambition and Tayside patter. Producer Owen Morris is on board again and can probably take some credit for the winning largess, along with a portion of the blame for some more poxy moments, while it is the orchestration and range of instrumentation that raises the whole project to ‘project’ status and makes this a worthy follow-up to a platinum selling debut, and a promise of future greatness.
By Mark Edmundson, The List (Issue 621), 22 January 2009
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