Farrah - Cut Out and Keep, Album Review

Farrah
Cut Out and Keep
Album Review

Farrah are a 4-piece pop-rock band that do anthemic and jangly really well. They sound like a spitting image of Fountains of Wayne (or Weezer on a lighter day) and Teenage Fanclub. Me Too, the London band's second album, brought them some proper global success alongside the comparisons to everyone from Squeeze and XTC to Supergrass.

Cut Our and Keep builds an extra level of maturity into the music - the clean-sounding rock hiding some nice edge in the lyrics, the way that Fountains of Wayne always have (although that's sometimes overdone and underjudged, as on Dumb Dumb Ditty).

Cut Out and Keep gives the impression from the second song in, however, that every song was written for a reason, and written to tell a story, rather than just sound different from the previous track. That is a significant step forward for this great-sounding band.

Rating 7/10

Mike Rea