| After two albums and a small army of EPs
in six years, A House take a decisive step
on from their often aimless former banter
and bluster with a mature new record shot
through with sparkling energy and gleeful
self-belief. Wide Eyed & Ignorant is
anything but, with Dave Couse's craggy, attention-grabbing
vocal weaving its way through a winning selection
of guitar-jangling pop songs ranging from
the feisty, furious Why Me to the beautifully
bare Make Me Proud and a joyful, swashbuckling
evocation of all things truly '70s in Rock'n'Roll.
With Edwyn Collins at the studio helm, the
Irish three-piece reveal a previously unfathomed
range and complexity of songwriting and arrangements
which remain deliciously fresh andexciting
from start to finish and back again. |
