Dork
  • Music News
    • Latest News
    • Album Release Schedule
  • Features
    • Features & Interviews
    • Artist Guides
    • In Photos
  • New Music
    • Hype
    • Hype News
    • Hype Features & Interviews
    • Hype Reviews
  • Playlists
    • Playlists
    • Dork Playlist
    • The Cut
    • Hype
      • Cover Story
      • Hype Playlist
  • Reviews
    • Album & EP Reviews
    • Live Reviews
  • Radio
    • Home
    • Shows
      • Down With Boring
    • Playlist
    • Listen Again
    • Podcast
      • Apple Podcasts
      • Spotify
      • Google Podcasts
      • Stitcher
      • aCast
      • TuneIn
  • Magazine
    • Latest Issue
    • Back Issues
    • Print Subscriptions
    • Print + Digital Subscriptions
  • Shop
  • Supporters
    • Support Dork
    • Supporter Only Content
    • Digital Library
HTML5 RADIO PLAYER PLUGIN WITH REAL VISUALIZER powered by Sodah Webdesign Dexheim
Dork
  • Music News
    • Latest News
    • Album Release Schedule
  • Features
    • Features & Interviews
    • Artist Guides
    • In Photos
  • New Music
    • Hype
    • Hype News
    • Hype Features & Interviews
    • Hype Reviews
  • Playlists
    • Playlists
    • Dork Playlist
    • The Cut
    • Hype
      • Cover Story
      • Hype Playlist
  • Reviews
    • Album & EP Reviews
    • Live Reviews
  • Radio
    • Home
    • Shows
      • Down With Boring
    • Playlist
    • Listen Again
    • Podcast
      • Apple Podcasts
      • Spotify
      • Google Podcasts
      • Stitcher
      • aCast
      • TuneIn
  • Magazine
    • Latest Issue
    • Back Issues
    • Print Subscriptions
    • Print + Digital Subscriptions
  • Shop
  • Supporters
    • Support Dork
    • Supporter Only Content
    • Digital Library
  • Album & EP Reviews

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Backhand Deals

  • Jamie MacMillan
  • February 23, 2022

Label: Missing Piece Records / Communion
Released: 25th February 2022


In the year 2022, an album written on a steady diet of ABBA and packed full of 70s soft rock influences just shouldn’t work. That’s not us being snobby, mind. It’s just a fact. Here, it’s easy to love things that shouldn’t really work. On ‘Backhand Deals’, Welsh rockers Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard skip happily down the thin line between loving homage and cheesy pastiche and (mostly) stay on the right side.

Kicking off with the upbeat, ass-kicking and zippy ‘New Age Millennial Music’ and the cheery ‘Good Day’ – any song with a chorus packed with plenty of ‘hey, heys’ should be celebrated – the album is front loaded with good times. While it can feel a bit like having too much sugar at points, it leaves one hell of a nice taste in your mouth (and ears) afterwards. ‘Faking A Living’ in particular, despite a title that feels like an open goal to music critics, nails the good time vibe that run through the band like a stick of Big Welsh Rock.

It’s a lesson in classic timeless indie songwriting at points, impeccably produced and pretty irresistible at its best. There’s a Britpoppy zip and bounce at points to ‘Backhand Deals’, though that could just be because many of those bands were also rooting through the same bargain bins in HMV. And though the memorable tunes do perhaps begin to finally tail off by the end, there’s enough to make it a party you will want to return to.

Jamie MacMillan
3.0 rating
3/5
Total Score
Related Topics
  • Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard
  • Hype
You May Also Like
View Post
  • Features

Louis Tomlinson’s ‘All Of Those Voices’ is a love letter to the people who made his career what it is today – review

  • March 27, 2023
View Post
  • Features

Fall Out Boy: “Going deep with people that care feels so much more important than going wide”

  • March 24, 2023
View Post
  • Music News

Bimini shares first music of 2023 with ‘Rodeo’

  • March 25, 2023
Latest issue
Latest
    • Music News
    Frightened Rabbit and Death Cab For Cutie are auctioning off a guitar for mental health charity Tiny Changes
    • Music News
    Coach Party, VLURE, HotWax, Mac Wetha and more have joined the line-up for The Great Escape 2023
    • Music News
    Sŵn Festival has confirmed its first wave of acts, feat. Jessica Winter, Lynks and more
    • Music News
    Jungle have shared a brand new track, ‘CANDLE FLAME’
    • Music News
    Tyler, The Creator is dropping an expanded edition of ‘Call Me If You Get Lost’ on Friday

Subscribe to our newsletter

Get pop nonsense to your inbox.

Dork
  • Contact
  • Jobs
  • Privacy
© 2016-2021 The Bunker Publishing Ltd

Input your search keywords and press Enter.