For goodness aitch!
As I press play on the CD player everything goes slightly fuzzy and my reality bites back, spluttering nostalgia all over me in a musical cocktail comprising of some Electro-Pop in the vein of a pistols-at-dawn- showdown between Gary Newman and Beastie Boys in a chilled-out mellow moment from 1998’s album, ‘Hello Nasty’. Low fi and fuzzy, muffle and scuzzy, beaten around a track and left to bask in the sunshine, it’s a song that neither electrifies me into proclaiming a new musical messiah, nor has me nodding off in an uneventful slumber - I am but somewhere in the middle.
The band is called Millimetre, which quite frankly is a boring a name as I could think up, and I’ll let this slip due to the fact that the band comprise solely of Irish lad Terence J McGaughey, so thank goodness he didn’t choose to go with that, eh? ‘Missing Haitch’ is overtly Arty-Pop, passively Garage Rock and a slap on the ass of Electro-Indie, all crumbled, rolled and smoked into some mellow, chilled and laid back groove…I’m not sure that I completely like it, but I certainly don’t hate it, so as Taime Downe once said, “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way…”
It is worth noting that ‘Haitch’ is the annoying way that people say the word, ‘Aitch’ which of course is the letter ‘H’. Along with many mispronunciations of the English language this has irritated me, although not as much as others it would appear, as I find out that there groups that are known as Haitch Hate Mobs…interesting…