The Body of Color

Donald Gordon

The Zutons
"You say you love day, but you come out at night"

 

The Zutons! The Zutons screach into place with a demented blues chicken scratch of Zuton fever. Falling in behind Abi Harding's creaky sax the whole band is of a singular sound, voodoo wahoo and lurking sharp shadows. Suited out in matching lab coats the band heads straight for the jugular, as lead man Dave McGrabe complains about the "Pressure Point". The warped beat presses for what it can't get, a cure for this disease. Let's hope they never find it and keep the scream alive.
 
Maybe it's the past that ails him: a tight bobbing call to an 'ex-lover' throbs away before giving in to the heights of a short sax n guitar solo. The rocker "Where Will You Sleep Tonight" creeps out of the swamp before the Zutons get all sweet on the tracks with "Railroad". How they got from Liverpool to the South is anyone's guess, but obviously they're staying for a while.
 
It's a packed house and still "You Will You won't" sends scragglers running in at the end. The Zutons have rounded out the Red Marquee's day long course of new rock, following The Killers, Snow Patrol and British Sea Power on the Green Stage. And they have laid it to rest in the crypt with their catchy dementia, their Screaming Jay Hawkins tribute of mad, mad beats and heedless release.
 

 

 


Reported 2004.07.30 / 19:05

 

 

 

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