THE SEQUINS - THE DEATH OF STYLE

(AU magazine February 2008)

(Tough Love Records)

WITH distinctive indie-pop warblings to rival Sir Ferghal of Sharkey, there's a tradition into which The Sequins neatly slip.
Unfortunately, it is a tradition of irritating, overdone art rock which garners all the affection of haemmaroids.
'The Death of Style' is a voyage through the minds of five particularly self-aware Midlanders, evidenced most strongly on the frightful 'Everyone Loves The Sequins'.
There's a market for this stuff, of course. It's called space year 2001, folks. So The Sequins - and everyone else with a copy of Roxy Music's 'Roxy Music' tucked under their arm - should trundle back there.