MARTIN CARR
Mainstream
Music • CD singleIndie
[60/100]
Tapete Records
08/10/2014, Paul PLEDGER
Edited from the new album The Breaks by the Boo Radleys frontman, Mainstream is an acoustic sad-face little melodrama in the spirit of autobiography - "I'm drowning in the mainstream/I kid myself I'm happy as I am...". What Martin Carr could do with is a thoroughly world-changing hit-single although sadly this probably isn't it, not because it's rubbish or isn't grimey, dubstepping trap-hop (or whatever) - Mainstream might just be a little too naval-gazing, even for today's simpering audiences. I Don't Think I'll Make It would make a cracking radio-song (hint hint) - or you just buy Carr's rather lovely album instead.
This review also appeared on Flipside Reviews
Paul PLEDGER
08/10/2014
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