Admiralty Wireless -‘The Stories Sailors Tell’ (Tidbit)
Oh, Lordy. Another day, another singer-songwriter – or six – who have poured their heart, soul and quite probably their life savings into making an album that’s really not terribly interesting.
Admiralty Wireless is the work of Mark Lough, a Stirling-born singer-songwriter. He’s also a producer and engineer and he clearly knows his way around a recording studio. He lists albums like Sgt Pepper, A Night At The Opera and Abbey Road – all very much studio creations – as inspiring him. The result is that the album sounds fantastic, but the songs just really are not up to much – to the extent that they seem to have melted away to nothing before they have even finished.
It is one thing for people to be able to tell where your influences have come from – but it’s really important for any act to take those influences and run with them. Sure, it’s blatantly obvious that Muse, for one, have been listening to Queen and similar acts, but they’ve fashioned their own sound from it.
I’m not disputing Mr. Lough’s ability to find his way around a recording studio, but I think in terms of songwriting, he needs to find his own voice.
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The Stories Sailors Tell is out now