Justin Melton Bradley

So, 2007 eventually finished, and has given way to the inevitably titled 2008. By rights the changes in the music scene over what is essentially just a few days should be minimal, and yet the adjustment in numbering is enough to prompt every single uninformed publication or attention-seeking blog to announce what their bands of 2008 are, as if we are somehow supposed to give a toss. Here at audioscribbler we like to think we’re better than everywhere else; however, we’re not. Thus I bring to you the first of many 2008 bands to watch out for; The Good Natured.

Listening to their two-track demo it is clear that the theme of numbers is fitting, the music being produced after all is essentially music by numbers, in that it sounds like a clone of other songs performed in a way that can only be described as amateurish. And yet the results are some of the most intricate, interesting, and listenable (and re-listenable for that matter) songs you are likely to hear this month.

Taking the phrase less is more even more literally than those Japanese boffins that created the iPod, the Nissan Micra, and the robotic Chihuahua, Our Very Last combines the organ sample on the keyboard, with a pounding disco drumbeat straight off eJay. Indeed, both the demo’s opener and Leave Your Games are a good producer away from pop magnificence, but the charm of a song you could probably have written and recorded yourself for a fiver is possibly more worthy of your attention than whatever the final product will be.

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