ISSUE 31 Some lovely kind people that deserve the riches of the world sent me out a CD to review. Ever heard of Dream City Film Club? Well I'd never heard the name before, so I didn't know what to expect. I mean, I love getting strange CD's in the post, you just look at the cover and try to guess what type of music it is, it's like Christmas or something!! Will it be drum and bass? (Yeah!!) Will it be house? (Boo) Will it be Speed Garage? (Barf) Actually, this Peel Session I got is kind of Indie-Guitar-Moan stuff. You know the drill, whiney bloke scraping his guitar over some sandpaper and some spasmodic drumming in the back, with long noisy bits where they just hit their instruments with hammers or whatever. Boring stuff really. The press release says that I'm listening to "Emotional and blistering live versions of 'Situation Desperate' and 'Perfect Piece of Trash' as initially performed on last summer's eponymously-titled debut LP." Yeah, Situation Desperate is actually a pretty apt name for what I've got going through my earphones right now. These people are too damn sad, and their apparent lack of any kind of interesting melodic making abilities is pretty scary. All you die hard Sonic Youth fans out there might like it, but if you happen to have the same excellent taste as I do [Hahahah- rest of S@E] then you'll probably switch it off pretty darn quickly. Well, maybe I shouldn't actually be too quick to put Dream City Film Club down. Despite the fact that I don't really like them, I mean at least they got their shit together and went out and fought for some kind of record deal. (Uh oh, Thayl's going off on a tangent, quick, I've got a nine point seven on the tangent-o-meter, we better get the proton packs) I have to applaud any type of music group, no matter how shitty I think they are, who actually try and push their album, despite all bad reviews which they might get. Ohhhh, I've really wandered here, I guess I'm too nice to just say I don't like them........