CD Review: " ‘They Came From The Sun’" by Yourcodenameis:Milo
Reviewer: Graham Emmerson

Release date 30th April 2007 on Truck Records


With rock, as with life, there’s a pecking order that’s never mentioned but we all know it’s there. Yourcodenameis:Milo have never been ones for rules and structure as a listen to the crazy debut album ‘All roads to fault’ will attest. So after 4 albums they recently supported newcomers Enter Shikari to try and escape from an undeserved lifetime of public indifference.

There’s never been a better time for the Newcastle noiseniks to turn critical acclaim into sales. ‘They Came From The Sun’ is their most straight-ahead rock album yet. ‘All That Was Missing’ has shades of Wolfmother with a spectral vocal effect that would sound best if you were playing it at full volume and travelling through space and time. Or abusing narcotics, it’s your call.

The constant urge to experiment that’s defined Yourcodenameis:Milo’s career so far is still in evidence. The electronic stylings of ‘About Leaving’ are combined to an impassioned vocal and a cutting guitar line to create perhaps the album’s highlight. Download single ‘Understand’ is one of their most accessible tracks to date while ‘Take To The Floor’ has an energy that could well have shamed Enter Shikari last month. With such a well-rounded 12-tracker it’s time for Yourcodenameis:Milo to undertake, hopefully, their most successful mission to date- make new converts to the cause.


 

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