‘Enjoy It While It Lasts’ is a more than enjoyable collection of old-school indie gems.
It doesn’t push any boundaries ... but, like anyone who remembers the giddy highs of 03-07 will know, none of that matters when your feet hit the floor.
Enjoy It While It Lasts has enough flashes of brilliance to suggest Spector may be around for a longer haul than their detractors would hope or like.
Enjoy It While It Lasts is a debut album that establishes Spector as a guitar pop group who hark back to the both distant and not quite so distant past.
A synthesis of pure pop that connects with listeners through ceaseless enthusiasm.
The whole record ... has a sense of karaoke to it, which is not so much down to the music itself often sounding like that of past, not necessarily irreproachable bands; rather, it's down to his singing: debonair and often half-shouted or spoken, as though he doesn't really mean it.
The songs on Enjoy It While It Lasts are chugging, overwrought, and comically theatrical in a painful fashion, lowest common denominator fodder.
I don't think Spector was reaching for a very high bar with this album. It has some fun songs but is somewhat over-theatrical at times. Chevy Thunder is a good example of this (I did enjoy the song, however). I did enjoy the ideas on this album, and it possesses a sound that has a very high potential.
Pretty great indie rock album. So much fun.
Best Songs: Chevy Thunder, Grey Shirt and Tie, Friday Night, Don't Ever Let It End
Worst Songs: No Adventure
1 | True Love (For Now) 3:43 | |
2 | Chevy Thunder 3:46 | |
3 | Grey Shirt & Tie 3:21 | |
4 | Twenty Nothing 3:26 | |
5 | Friday Night, Don't Ever Let It End 3:50 | |
6 | Lay Low 3:18 | |
7 | Upset Boulevard 3:46 | |
8 | No Adventure 3:36 | |
9 | What You Wanted 3:17 | |
10 | Celestine 3:43 | |
11 | Grim Reefer 2:52 | |
12 | Never Fade Away 3:37 |
#26 | / | NME |
#37 | / | Time Out London |