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3 Children Of Fortune - Scarlet Fever
(Noise Underground)

www.threechildrenoffortune.com

Released 21/03/05

Having wrestled this promo from the arms of a Serafin addict, I am now able to inform all you good people that Three Children Of Fortune sound quite a lot like Serafin.

And as far as I’m concerned, this is a good thing.

I should probably write a bit more. Ok, then: This is wirey, bitter, clangy post-Brit-grunge with exceedingly good taste. More? Ok, it’s recorded at demo-level quality, meaning the guitars sound like they’re made of tissue boxes and rubber bands (down-tuned rubber bands, of course). This needs to be sorted out, because musically they’re going for some nice Aerogramme-style lumbering, which only works with a big fat sound. The b-side, “Flesh and Bone”, sounds particularly like Serafin.


Tom Pegg - 7/10
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