Turin Brakes
5 mile
Is it me, or are Turin Brakes’ singles
getting progressively more country-lite with every release?
With 5 mile, you can actually almost imagine it as a semi-humorous
cover of a Shania Twain song. I don’t know whether
this is to its detriment or not – it’s a well-crafted
pop track, right down to the multi-layered harmonies at
the end – that only seems to lose out to the fact
that they’re too embarrassed to properly package
it as such. The production seems to try and disguise it
by muddling with knight’s vocals, but if you ask
me it’d do better with more handclaps and twiddly
violins, a la Twain’s “Don’t be stupid”.
6/10
