Diamond Hoo Ha
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008
Few bands catch the tenor of their musical times yet Supergrass
have done so twice. Their 1995 single Alright marked the
acceptance by British youth culture of Britpop, while four years
later their elegiac, emotionally scarred self-titled third album
brought the curtain down on the same movement and its desperate
excesses.
Diamond Hoo Ha is their sixth studio set and it makes
the best of the options left to them now: craftsmanship and an
appreciation of the past. Frontman Gaz Coombs is a sturdy
songwriter and his magpie eyes pick over a worthy selection,
revealing traces of The Jam, The Who and Iggy Pop during his late
’70s revival. Like the latter, the disc was recorded in Berlin, and
its best moments have a similar strut undercut by a hard-bitten
persona.
The closing tune, Butterfly, is the album’s best effort
but it should have been an introduction to a weathered, wiser
Supergrass rather than offsetting the youthful hi-jinx of tracks
such as Whiskey %26amp; Green Tea.
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