Originally written by holliy · 21 November 2005
Negative For Francis
Losing Control/Love Bug
Label: Marquis Cha Cha Release Date: 21/11/2005
Negative For Francis - a three-step initiation plan
• Spend several minutes pondering who Francis could be and what kind of Negativity might be winging his unwary way.
• Play side one and discover a straightforward slash-disco-rock number, cutting between jagged dancefloor thrash and jangly tuneful choruses. Entertaining enough, yes - but surely the target-market of People Who Need More Thrashy Arty Rock In Their Lives cannot be large enough to justify putting any more of the stuff out there?
• Get onto side two… and discover that, contrary to original impressions, NFF are actually heir apparent to The B-52s and the Love Bug is a direct evolutionary descendent of the Rock Lobster. Become ridiculously overexcited and sell everything you possess in order to charter a plane to a remote pacific island and dedicate the rest of your life to the search for the mysterious many-legged-rock-beast whose coming is heralded by the twinning of high-pitched, borderline-imbecilic high-pitched warbling with a tacit rumbling threat of a bassline which is utterly contradictory in mood.
In summary, then: Disco pop punk on the subject of delusional anthropomorphising? YES.