REDJETSON - New General Catalogue

Redjetson introduce themselves to the music audience with this “New General

Catalogue" and with the favor of Bloc Party (had I said Rolling Stones...), who

seem to have appreciated its sound. Forget the post-wave frenzies of Kele Okereke's

band, here we're sailing towards Codeine, Mogwai and the slowcore/post-rock crowd,

singing all the way. Now, it's not that we want to wield the cleaver of the most

uncompromising criticism at all costs, but tell me if it's possible to offer, in the year 2006, a

sound that is already the property of musical archaeology museums. Well, yes, if the

sound tended toward an evolution of the original sound, or if we

found ourselves faced with songs so beautiful and accomplished as to push into the background

plane the rest. But are we in the presence of what's been described? No, unfortunately for us the

band rehashes, in calligraphic fashion, a decade's worth of slow-burning rock, never quite landing

on a memorable melody or a distinctive arrangement. Psychedelia? Not much of it.

Existential yearning? Don't even mention it. What's left? Sincerity and commitment,

which certainly come through, but that's not enough to turn the songs into good songs.

There is something with the strength to rise above mediocrity,

starting with “Perseverance Works”, an almost five-minute dirge that makes use

the example of masters Seam in the guise of limpid melodies that interlock right up to

the final explosion in a bacchanal of distortion. Also notable is “New

Europe”, with a droney crescendo à la Earth over which a faint

acoustic guitar arpeggio is layered, along with a wavering trumpet outro evoking those

mountainous landscapes photographed in the booklet.

Everything else falls in line

with the classic slowcore and guitar-heavy post-rock template, meaning

alternations of quiet-loud-quiet, a bit of melancholy, the odd riff

that's just slightly rockier… the rest is boredom, some might say.

And forgive us,

Redjetson, but we really can't find any good reason to recommend

buying this record.

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30/04/2026