Guillemots Defends Second Album Criticism

It's because they're 'wacky'...

by Hazel Sheffield
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Guillemots Defends Second Album Criticism

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2008-11-16 00:00:00 - GUILLEMOTS @ The Plug (formerly Zero)

Fyfe Dangerfield, front man of experimental indie outfit Guillemots, has defended the band’s second album 'Red' in an interview with BBC 6 Music.

Dangerfield said the band were "bemused" at the negative reaction to their sophomore release, which departs from the quiet introspection of ‘Through The Windowpane’ to develop a more upbeat, r’n’b sensible sound.

“It certainly seems fashionable not to like us at the moment,” Dangerfield told the BBC. “Maybe that’s just me being paranoid.”

He attributes the bad press to the band being “just a bunch of misfits,” saying, “we’re not a band that looks cool.”

Though Guillemots have always thrived on eccentricity, donning animal masks and altering live performances nightly, Dangerfield feels their quirkiness may have come back to haunt them.

Of their current reputation, Dangerfield said, "we either sound like we’re wacky, quirky people that just run around going ‘I’m mad me!’ or ‘Lets use a biscuit tin!’ or we sound like we’re prog-obsessed idiots.”

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People don’t like you because you’re shit Fyfe
~ by God 3/19/2008
People love you ’cos you’re God, Fyfe!
~ by The World 3/19/2008
see them live and make your own mind up, so they dont shop at topshop, but if your not amazed by their live performance..............
~ by meredith 3/19/2008
I am concerned about the direction the Guillemots’ music might be heading in. They can definitely do more upbeat sogns as the hauntingly good ”Kriss Kross” shows, yet ”Get Over It” was in contrast a disappointment. Whilst I’m not advocating a re-hashing of the first album, the same-old at the same quality would be preferrable to substandard new stuff, for the sake of it being a new musical direction.
~ by PA 3/19/2008
This album will sell more and the B-sides on the single will keep the Window Pane lovers happy. I recon they have been pushed to goind more commercial with RED and album 3 will be back to the old stuff.
~ by Bobby Sans 3/20/2008