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Fultons Point - EP
Released: 2nd January 2006
Label: Unsigned
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The first thing to come to your attention when this CD begins to spin is the strange voice of the vocalist. A cross between three well-known singers, the front man of Fultons Point could easily be a blend of Eddie Vedder, Paul Young and Ben Ottewell. The music too comes close to lighter, mellower parts of the Gomez catalogue, the roots of the confluence coming from across the Atlantic.
Of the seven tracks here, none are bad, and some are good: ‘Knee Deep in The Wild’ is typical of the low key and loping approach that Fulton’s Point adopt. It’s also the track where the lead singer comes closest to Paul Young, and occasionally it is plain scary at how strange and mesmerizing his broken and raspy howl is. The energetic closing jam, ‘Got No Place To Go’ is a compromise – the howl is tied down to what could almost make a chart song. It’s a rare concession to commercial riffing on what proves to be an aimable and yet left-field seven track collection.
Fultons Point (and there is no apostrophe) are a four piece from Manchester, ‘ready to go’ according to their promo material. Their lyrics are bluesy, their tunes are dust blown and loose-limbed, able to climb and sway and fall and stagger around after a gallon of whiskey. There are aspirations in the words, a lot of ‘good times will come’ and a refreshing lack of claustrophobia and tension. Tracking their influences is fairly hard: for instance, ‘The Behemoth’ sounds a lot like ‘How High’ by The Charlatans, but then changes and snakes around until it’s a Led Zeppelin unplugged jam session. The next song, ‘Empty Streets’ shamelessly rips off the end of ‘Running to Stand Still’ by U2, and then, bizarrely, there’s a snippet of a David Gray inflection before we’re back on lo-fi Vedder territory with the harmonica floating in and out of the mix and what sounds like a banjo. It could be exhausting if it was studied and carefully planned – but it arrives at these destinations of its own accord.
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