Regular Urban Survivors - Terrorvision

This has to be best (maybe 2nd to Formaldehyde) CD the Bradford lads have made. I have a friend in Austrailia who wanted me to fill up the second side of a casette I was sending him, and had to chop out a track or two, and I have never had trouble deciding which tracks I should lose, and in trbute to Terrorvision, there was no way I could remove any of the tracks - every one is sheer quality, so I bought him a copy and mailed it to him! If you ever get the chance to - see them live, they play a lot of material from this CD in their set, and they get better every time ...  Read the complete review

This album came to us in the heady days of Britpop, brought to us by those boys from Bradford. So should we love it or hate it? Well, it starts off well enough, the first track ”Enteralterego” is as good an opener you’ll find anywhere. Builds up slowly, then hits you, but I’ll be damned if I can tell you what its about. But sure enough it’s a guitar turned up to 11 type of song. “Superchronic” follows on its heals, hits you with a heavy build up buts does the classic ‘vision trick of going almost jazzy on you. “Perseverance” was the brake through single, and quite possibly the most Britpop of all the ...  Read the complete review

Terrorvision’s third album after Formaldehyde and How to Make Friends and Influence People, Regular Urban Survivors is pure pop-rock fun. There’s little here to make you think deep thoughts, nor is there anything to make you sad, but that’s not a bad thing. This album seems to have been written for fun, and it shows in the easy musical style. If you’re not familiar with Terrorvision, they’re a bunch of four lads from Bradford who write pop-rock tunes. Their breakthrough came with their second album, with a couple of singles making it into the top forty. Most people have heard of them, and you’ll probably recognise a song or two ...  Read the complete review