The Floors - Borrowed

Thu 28th Jul, 2005 in Music Reviews

The Floors have a sexy, polished sound combining interesting vocals and an air-tight rhythm section. The Borrowed sampler contains two mixes of two songs from the full EP providing a mere taste of this interesting new band out of Perth.

Borrowed is a sexy, slinky retro-rock song that has radio hit written all over it without being generic or pedestrian. The vocals are unusual, sensual and clear. The production overall is top-notch and very clean. The second track is an instrumental version of Borrowed (TV Mix) and it really showcases the talent of the rhythm section. The lead guitar is amazing, singing like a choir and the whole thing is very tight.

The second song is a very convincing ballad called Tree Song. It sounds a little bit like updated, sweet sounding Hoodoo Gurus. It is good old-fashioned Aussie rock sonnet and it works well. The guitar sound is full, sounding like many more guitars than one would assume are present and the drums are never overdone but still very much holding the piece together.

The last track is the TV Mix of Tree Song, also instrumental. Where the TV Mix of Borrowed focussed on the guitar to provide the voice, Tree Song seems to draw out the drums much more. I’m not really sure what the function of the instrumental versions are on the sampler but they were very good. The Floors seem to be standing on the cusp of big things, this EP introduces a talented band with exceptional songs.