Flamingo Crash - Triangle Island (Album)

It’s been less than a fortnight since I’ve been exposed to this band. During the shows I watched as they conducted a well-prepared campaign, rewarding those who came early by giving them free CDs. But as the story usually goes in these pieces I missed out on one. Now I have their full-length record “Triangle Island” to call my own enabling me to relive the moments of their live show.

The first track (and first single) off Triangle Island, Mystery Music doesn’t have a strong start in my opinion, only easing you in and cruising right along, however it does get saved by the saxophone addition keeping the listeners tuned in before getting woken up by their drum driven follow up track Yes? Yes? Yes? Add in some handclaps and the crowd is ready to join in. Switching in between the authentic piano sound and keyboard synth kept the song interesting enough before moving onto Shoot The Lights Out.

Now, Shoot The Lights Out when put in the background and your attention span elsewhere could very well be mistaken for some sort of J-pop or K-pop band. (If you are still at a loss, visit a Morning Glory store and you will know what I mean). The only difference is these guys are singing in English (well most of the time… I’m still not sure if they are actually singing “Leo boom bop bop” or just making random sounds and stringing them together “Eh eh eh ohh”). But English, non- English, either way it makes a great dance floor anthem song and is definitely one of my favourites in Triangle Island.

Some songs drop in and out of its flavour but honourable mentions go to S.T.F.U. (‘Shut The Fuck Up’) for the bass introduction and Smartbomb which I actually thought was too heavy of a track for the rest of the cluster but the energy is commended on my end. The surprise in Smartbomb is not the fact that it is such a short track but about halfway it balances out the heavy introduction by cutting out distorted guitars and elaborate lyrics to switching to keyboard notes and tight bass lines with a repetition of “If there really is a smartbomb then it would tell us to stop fucking killing each other.”

I used to not like repetition but I like this melodramatic pop they have created and I wouldn’t mind shooting the lights out and dancing along.

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