Review:'Edible, Matt & the Obtuse Angels' 'Mirror Shoes'
- Genre: 'Rock'
- Release Date: '13th September 2023'
Our Rating:
Where does the time go? I ask this question daily, multiple times, even. It was fully ten years since Hull band The Holy Orders gatecrashed my attention with their album ‘For The Ears of Dogs To Come’. Subsequently, front man Matt Edible established Matt Edible and the Obtuse Angels, who, in a parallel universe, are huge due to the perennial success of their Christmas smash single ‘Advent Beard’, which lands somewhere between The Manic Street Preachers and The Darkness.
Edible has a great voice, and he puts it to good use here on this ultra-glammy stomper. It’s got that beefy, solid, thunking beat that’s pure Glitter Band banging away throughout, and the riff is so, so solid, the guitar big, fat, and scuzzy, with the bass and guitar welded tightly together and crunching along together in unison. I’m reminded of Bauhaus’ cover of Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust’, but this is more.. more… more. Like Rebel Yell, only glammier.
‘Mirror Shoes’ is uplifting, fun, amped up and stonking like Marc Bolan on steroids. Ziggy isn’t the only one who played guitar: Matt sure as hell did, too, and ‘Mirror Shoes’ is a stomper.
