Articles by Daniel Searle


has written 22 articles for Nouse


Simple Plan, Addicted

By , , and — June 10, 2003

Jon: Sounds like Blink 182/Alkaline Trio. Dan: That bloke’s got a whiney voice. Rob: Do you think they’ve heard of Greenday? Jon: Nice line: "I’m a dick, I’m addicted to you." Dan throws Addicted out of the window in disgust. (This is true. Into a carpark. Apologies to the owner of the blue Nissan Sunny.)

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DJ Chrome, Who’s Crying Now?

By , , and — May 13, 2003

Implausibly bad dance single from anonymous rubbishist. Johan: I thought, when I saw the cover it was going to be an ironic record. Its not. Rob: Man with drum machine and keyboard in his bedroom.

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Goldfrapp, Inside Of Love

By , , and — May 13, 2003

Strange warbling lady produces interesting track. Jen: It’s a really good single because it doesn’t sound like all the other crap we’ve heard.

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British Sea Power, Fear Of Drowning

By , , and — May 13, 2003

Flaming Lips-inspired rock. The track starts well with a good guitar lick, but the vocals are off-putting Jen: That’s a really bad vocal Johan: There’s a theme of bad David Bowie impressions going on.

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Breed 77, La Ultime Hora

By , , and — May 13, 2003

Band from Gibraltar mix weirdness with rubbish. Admirably adventurous, mixing Gibraltan music (whatever that is) with industrial metal. The track is interesting although not easy listening and looses credibility through the lead singer’s unfortunate vocal similarities to Michael Ball. Jen: Sounds like a really bad Eurovision entry. Rob: I’ve heard of the Rock of Gibraltar, [...]

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Staind, Price To Play

By , , and — May 13, 2003

Pisspoor nu-metal from Fred Durst’s label buddies. We’ve seen it all before and it impresses no-one; Staind may as well have just sampled the past five years of Nu-Metal and put it into this single, which, to be perfectly honest possesses its most intelligent feature in the unwitty pun that smears the title. Jen: You [...]

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David Gray, Be Mine

By , , and — May 13, 2003

Depressive Irish ballad monger vomits out another hit for the headphones of the nation’s housewives. Give him his due, David Gray has got a good formula worked out, and he’s laughing all the way to the bank and musical purgatory. This sounds like it was written for a Dawson’s Creek scene as they look into [...]

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