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Fence | Angels On Your Body

The Belgians do it again.
CD, Labelman/Konkurrent

Tekst: Norbert Pek

Publicatiedatum: 22 november 2001

They did it again! Immediately they catch your attention with fresh uncomplicated pop songs like Pavement, Weezer, and Metal Molly did before them. The Belgian boys from Fence debuted a little while ago with the catchy 'The Return of the Geronimo', produced by Frans Hagenaars. But where most of the bands try to get more serious when they keep on making music, for Fence there is still enough room for crazy lyrics about knickers ("so you're really gonna take them off for me") or the always very serious rejection ("I know a girl / she can walk like a nun / I'd like to kiss her / but she is too young"). But where the faster, louder songs with some steaming guitars now and then dominated the first album, 'Angels on Your Body' makes more space for the restrained Fence. It's not a coincidence that the first single is called 'Relax', and it's the closing song on the album, something you don't see very often. But with Fence, the multiple vocals cheering on most of the song go hand in hand with some ironic intimacy: some happy organ tunes on 'Sunset Boysband', the 38 seconds of 'Clandestine', whose topic is the song itself ("simple is this song / we love to call it 'Clandestine'"), some whistling on 'The Slopes', and the trumpet on '3 Floors Down'. A bunch of guitar songs with a blink and a wink, leaving you behind with the immediate urge to play it again and again.

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