Athlete - The Athlete EP

Posted by: Andy on Monday, 4th March, 2002

Wow! At first I thought this was going to be a bit boring. The intro of Westside is very slow and quiet but then it breaks into something that sounds vaguely hip-hop influenced and funky, defying its chorus of, “everywhere you go, everyone wants to be part of the rock scene.”

Dungeness is a strange affair; it borrows from so many styles that you can’t place any of them. It all just seems very familiar. Finally, One Of Those Days is a very dreamy, stream of consciousness song, although it’s end is very abrupt.

Athlete sound a lot like Action Spectacular and I have a feeling that they are going to pick up the success that the latter deserved but never got.

Label: Regal
Release date: March 4th 2002