Elastica - Elastica Reviews

This album from this band caused a lot of excitement on the indie scene when it appeared in 1995. It was a crossover success too spawning three Top Twenty UK hit singles with, "Line Up", "Connection", and, "Waking Up". Elastica were different in that they were mainly a girl group. Many better-known indie groups at the ...

The Indie scene of the mid-1990's spawned a whole host of British bands with attitude that didn't seem to be aping their American counterparts. Few of these bands carried a greater weight of expectation that the London quartet Elastica. Comprising of Justine Frischmann (lead vocalist and guitarist), Donna Matthews (backing vocalist and ...

Quite why anyone would recommend this album is beyond me. Not one decent track, with two chord songs, weak lyrics, basic drumming and bland choruses. Apart from the ripped-off 'Waking Up', the other singles provide a slight rise in the quality, but otherwise the song writing leaves very much to be desired. Stutter has two chords, and the ...

This album really captured an era. Girls with guitars, catchy indie tunes and functional lyrical content, all mainstays of the Britpop age. The album doesn't really stand up to close scrutiny now, but that doesn't really count against it, as it was meant to be listend to back then. As such, the insanely catchiness of Waking Up, Stutter and ...

I love this album! Whether its the frantic pace that it rattles through it's 15 songs or the pure energy of each individual one, I don't know, but it rocks! Like every good album, there a few pop songs to get you into it, namely in the middle with allnighter (the wailing 'I'M SO HAPPY!' sticks in the mind for an age). ...