"Fifth Amendment" Fifth Amendment (One Little Indian) review by Ruth

When will you people learn that the addition of huge amounts of multimedia stuff doesn't necessarily endear you to fanzines. Especially if the CD ROM you send us doesn't work properly (yes, OK, so we're using a crappy early pentium processor but even that managed to play the Deftones 'White Pony' stuff and that's got a pacman clone on it...). This then after those disappointing follow-up singles to last year's excellent dry-mouthed-bruised-fingers debut 'Praeludium' - I've rather worryingly set out with extremely low expectations from this album. But I made my peace, I've put the bad decisions behind me. After all, they had such promise in the beginning, there must be something on their first long player that fulfills it. And in places there is; sparks of flames begin to flicker throughout the guitar noise Garbage-esque abandon of 'Addict', and the metal rock Pretenders of 'Models of Perception'. However, for every 'Camera Shy's laiden riffs and grating ranting there's a 'Heave' - an otherwise great number ruined by what sounds like an attempt to bring cellnet/dance/metal/fusion to the clubs.

It's not a bad debut, but somewhere along the grand vision seems to get tripped up in the gift wrapped decoration. They've yet to set the stage fully alight. The flame might be in there somewhere, but at the moment it's very difficult to see through all this smoke.

2.75/5

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