Stooping To Fit
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Not without good reason Catchers titled their 1994 debut album Mute because it very nearly was. Songs were uniformly hushed, vocals whispered, and any audible lyrics tended to revolve around bruised apples and cotton dresses. While this successor suggests that the Portstewart Five-piece have since discovered the benefits of projection, they remain a very fragile proposition. Essentially they are a guitar band with the sound turned low, and these songs would be quite exultant were they not suffering from the kind of angst one normally acquires after living alone in a bedsit for too long. Nevertheless, there's some charming music here: Aqualapping sounds like trip-hop in a goldfish bowl and Spellbound can make goosebumps mate and rapidly reproduce.