Scott & Charlene's WeddingAny Port In A Storm
Bedroom Suck

- Any Port In A Storm is unmistakably the follow up to Scott & Charlene’s Wedding’s 2010 debut record, Para Vista Social Club. Bedroom Suck have handled the domestic release and it fits nicely into what could be called the label’s ‘Adelaide period’.

Thematically, the record is a relatively straight line. The songs themselves have a lot in common with the debut record in terms of slacker–rock everyday life rock ballads.. Craig Dermody moved to NYC recently. A lot of the songs are about that. Living in NYC the Craig Dermody way. He’s a little lost but he’s doing OK.

It’s as if a certain unique charm that was present on the first record is missing here. There’s a lot of songs about making it in NYC and there aren’t that many songs about Footscray Station. A lot of Any Port In A Storm has the same momentum and arrangement. The same feel, the same intensity. The hooks sit wedged between some sit-down guitar solos. Clock Out And Leave has some great keyboards that recall Girls Can Tell-era Spoon. However, there’s a noticeable gap between the vocals and the rest of the band, with Dermody’s vocals very crisp and very much in the foreground.

Gammy Leg is another high point of the record that’s got a great Guided By Voices sort of grove being repeated by the guitar. I just wish the guitar was as it sounded on the last track, Wild Heart. It’s the tune with the most gusto of any on the record and the Tonight Tonight-esque synth-strings and the bleeding lead guitar finally provides some much needed dynamics to this record. Any Port In A Storm is decent - people who like singles and making mixtapes will enjoy. As an album though, it’s rather ordinary .

- Josh Watson.

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