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The Lookie Loos
Timing Is Everything
Pleasantly peppered with choice samples of their ilk, English roses Kooks and Libertines, the Kiwi four-piece The Lookie Loos are more grown-up than their name suggests, lacing songs with old-school naivety that works so well in the popular rock and roll rule book they seem to follow. As powerful as Tim Steers’ vocals are, the layered voices on ‘Count To Ten’ and on the closing of ‘Picking Up Sticks’ are welcome changes to an otherwise threatened monopoly of monotony in the vocal department. The bumbling ‘Next Year’ is also a spirited jibe, and ‘…Sticks’ has a great country twang with the effects and guitar breaks. Songs can be a little long and thus come across as conventionally tailored for Top 40 radio, which is great for a local band seeking commercial success, but if they really wanted to make waves, they’d spice up the verse/chorus/verse structure they faithfully adhere to. Nonetheless, a friendly offering from a catchy, fun and entertaining quartet that’s clearly on the rise.
Sarah Gooding - The Groove Guide
The Lookie Loos
Timing Is Everything
Pleasantly peppered with choice samples of their ilk, English roses Kooks and Libertines, the Kiwi four-piece The Lookie Loos are more grown-up than their name suggests, lacing songs with old-school naivety that works so well in the popular rock and roll rule book they seem to follow. As powerful as Tim Steers’ vocals are, the layered voices on ‘Count To Ten’ and on the closing of ‘Picking Up Sticks’ are welcome changes to an otherwise threatened monopoly of monotony in the vocal department. The bumbling ‘Next Year’ is also a spirited jibe, and ‘…Sticks’ has a great country twang with the effects and guitar breaks. Songs can be a little long and thus come across as conventionally tailored for Top 40 radio, which is great for a local band seeking commercial success, but if they really wanted to make waves, they’d spice up the verse/chorus/verse structure they faithfully adhere to. Nonetheless, a friendly offering from a catchy, fun and entertaining quartet that’s clearly on the rise.
Sarah Gooding - The Groove Guide
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Timing is Everything - EP
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Bio
The Lookie Loos have been playing and writing songs together since 1995. While the lead singer/songwriter, Tim Steers, finished his music degree at The Waikato Institute, the band started playing to larger and larger crowds. In the last few months they have played at The Big Day Out, New Zealands largest rock festival.
Their debut 6 track EP "Timing Is Everything," bombards you with catchy vocal melodies and hard hitting beats that never fail to catch the listeners ear. The Lookies release showcases the group’s energy and passion with clear references to the bands influences in their writing. The music is very accessible and sits firmly in between genres from pop-rock, indie to blues. The rousing choruses of "Back of my mind" and "Next year" are sure to be live favourites as the pace of the record increases and the band hit their stride. The challenge is not to move your feet.
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