So, our eight track mini-album/EP/concept-disc/whatever ‘The Sad History of the Village of Alnerique’ was released last month.
A few people really didn’t “get” where we were coming from with it, but thankfully, a fair few people did! Steve Lamacq was one of the ones who did and he made it his ‘Album of the Week’ on BBC Radio 1 which was very kind of him. Thank you Steve.
Here’s a few scans of some reviews in popular music magazines such as NME, Kerrang!, Rock Sound, Plan B and Big Cheese. If they don’t fully fit the screen, they’re all on the “press” page on our website or in the photos section on our myspace page.
Personally, I liked being described as “oddballs” and “an acquired taste” by Kerrang!, especially considering they had Trivium on the cover the issue we were in. Come on now, would you dare be Trivium!?
The less said about that NME review the better, eh!? I like how they criticise William and Philip for going to Uni and then spell Teesside wrong. Isn’t ironic, don’t you think, like yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahehyeah. I never went to Univermersity so if my spelling is nads, it’s not my fault is it.
Away from the real life, “The Sad History” received some kind reviews from various webzines. Some webzines weren’t so kind. But you know, don’t care do I.
http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=8275
http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/albums/dartz-the-sad-history-of-the-village-alnerique
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/43862-dartz-the-sad-history-of-the-village-of-alnerique
http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Review.aspx?id=6063
http://www.music-dash.co.uk/releases/release.asp?item=5685
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/13699
I’ve saved the best for last here – check out our thoroughly marvellous 2/5 review on Punktastic:
http://www.punktastic.com/reviews/3061
I have no problem with people giving us bad reviews. Each to their own ‘n’ all tha’, especially with this record as we tried something different for us and I can see why it perhaps won’t appeal to as many people as some of our old releases did… although hopefully after a few listens it starts to make sense.
BUT!
Mr Punktastic saying “I’ve never really got everyone’s love of Dartz! and I find them bemusingly overrated” eighteen months after he said “this is a really fun, and a really good, record… Stop reading this review and go and listen on their myspace and then buy their CD. It’d be a better way to spend your time” when giving our debut album 4/5 seems pretty ridiculous to me. Clearly a doyle.
Fair enough if he doesn’t like the new record, but pretending he never liked us at all is a bit low isn’t it?! Down with that sort of thing. Careful now.
If you’d like to decide for yourself if you like our new record or not, you can buy it from all of the usual suspects although, as always, we recommend our friends at Banquet Records:
Tags: big cheese, dartz, kerrang!, nme, plan b, punktastic, radio 1, reviews, rock sound, steve lamacq
