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Goldrush @ Camden Dingwalls, 23.10.2002

GOLDRUSH

With the folksy indie acoustica literally growing like ivy around his ears, James Berry finds Goldrush finally finishing dealing their full hand at London's Dingwalls.

18/11/2002

The first thing to strike you (well, more stroke you) upon entrance is the sound. Which may seem like a completely ridiculous thing to say on an occasion like this, but it does. You see, it is stories deep, barely held up, like a high-rise house of cards built painstakingly in the absolute calm. We appear to be hearing what can only be described as the sound of the sound, rather than what we’ve been cajoled into accepting as sound from far too many years of second-rate speakers and engineers. And we like it. This is obviously the very last scenario we’d ever put say The Parkinsons in, if we wanted to enjoy them at all, but Goldrush are a band with ‘handle with care’ ever so slightly sponged across their foreheads. If they were ever bruised (or dropped on their heads, like Gomez) things would obviously degenerate very quickly. Here is a band that don’t just deserve a bit of delicacy, they need it.

And tonight they get it, and sound immediately glorious for it. If the album didn’t always lift off where it should have (which it didn’t), seeming dulled by the fact that it just didn’t follow the breadth of character and ambition that those first couple of singles and b-sides hinted at in spades, then its like they’re finishing dealing their full hand right now. Buried amid a myriad of melodies and rhythms, always bound by a central pillar of equal strength and fragility in singer Robin – however that manifests itself in each song – you can hear their folksy indie acoustica literally growing like ivy around your ears. It’s not like it’s particularly sideways at all, a Gorkys’ backwardness that ebbs out on record occasionally is smoothed over live, just that it is really strong songwriting with lightly built but solid foundations. And as we don’t hear much of its sort these days you can forget how satisfying it can be.

Where previous single, the magnificent ‘Pioneers’, lifts off with a surging warm thrust of distortion half way, jabbing tenderly at your expectation, or when ‘Let You Down’ ascends in spirals towards the end or as the incredible lilting ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ blossoms, it’s like an estranged friend appearing out of the low hubbub of the crowd. Where Radiohead (with whom similarities extend just beyond Oxford’s borders) fire between gentle and spiky phonics to emphasise the two sides of their coin, Goldrush just want you to concentrate on the most intricate side and realise how deep it’s etched. And while they look young, or fresh faced and first-time-eager, experience is something you seriously doubt they lack (aside from the fact you know they’re already running an inspirational label and annual festival). In fact they draw you in with an urge to learn from them. And you know they’d look after you.



James Berry for Crud Magazine© 2002


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