Track Listing

1. Banquet
2. Compliments (Peel Session)
3. Banquet (Another Version By The Glimmers)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168012 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Single

Customer Reviews

Awesome
Proof that you should really get into this whole art rock thing, honestly this country hasn't produced a band as good as this for a very long time...don't believe me? just take a look at the CD's you've bought in the last 2 or 3 years and you won't find anything quite as thrilling as 'banquet'... especially from the UK. Bring on the album.

Bloc Rockin' Beats (Sorry, bad pun I know).
Britannic art rock good enough to have franz quaking in their boots... Quite simply one of the most exciting and infectious songs you are likely to hear this side of 2005. Kele's vocals have and angst ridden, intravenous quality, backed up with darkly uplifting angular guitars which you cannot help but move your converse clad feet to. To the man who's enjoyment was spoiled by a "passing resemblance to 'rich' by the yyy's", pay no mind - this is a five star track through and through. "I'm on fire so stub me out!"

Y'know we call 'em 'Street Parties,' here......
Quite a funky little tune, kinda punky guitars with a spooky haunting quality to it, nice beats etc, BUT the major point I would like to make is that the chorus bears more than a passing resemblance to Rich by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, so my enjoyment of this track is a little inhibited as I keep expecting it to break into the same kind of dizzy perfection and it NEVER QUITE DOES. I'm all for a bit of suspense and tension in a song, but that's what verses are for...at least have the common decency to deliver in the chorus! Having said that, I do like this song, but would probably have liked it more if I hadn't heard the YYYs. Can anyone else hear the similarity or is it just me?