Favourite albums of 2008 part 10

Numero diez: Allura - Wake Up And Smell The Seaweed



It will always seem biased when you write about one of the bands which you work with. While I quite like the debut EP, there's this nagging notion in the back of my mind that something is truly missing from the album. I can't decide if it's because it's an EP which is just wrong to me these days. I prefer to listen to longer albums which means more songs. Or it requires more intricate layers (more vocal harmonies and other instruments) cause songs, at least to me, could be peeled back like onions. But as usual, it's the singer who sells the song. Inch has a very "niao-niao" (Hokkein for "feline") timbre about her voice which is intriguing. And they have funny song titles which is normally half the battle won.