Not Squares – 'Yeah OK' review
Deciding to write a “party record” is akin to planning to be spontaneous: the people who do it are the least appropriate for the job. And so to Not Squares – even their name suggests they might be trying a bit too hard – a Belfast rabble who, not content with the legendary Northern Irish craic, decided that their hometown was missing a party band.
The first couple of minutes of Yeah OK start promisingly, with nicely banging techno building up and breaking down. But then an overly wacky German accent intervenes, imploring us to “release the bees”, and the LP never really recovers. The beer-friendly big-beat that follows suggests this is probably a hoot at 2am in a sweaty Belfast boozer, but on record there’s a pretty distinct whiff of desperation. Party on? Party off.
2/10
