Album Review: Dead Fingers - Dead Fingers



Album Rating: C+

We all know that music has undergone huge stylistic change over time, but what is often overlooked is how this has affected the attitudes with which we perceive it. An album of good songs is no longer enough - these days we expect musicians to display a degree of diversity in their work, and this pressure to branch out can prove many a bands undoing. It's a grey area not often brought up for discussion but, when does an album cease to be an accomplished and varied body of work and instead come across as a bundled together assortment of random ideas? It's a delicate balancing act - especially if the ideas in question are sourced in different genres entirely - and on the whole it's one that Taylor and Kate Hollingsworth don't quite get right on their debut LP as Dead Fingers.