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Adam Kesher - Where's My Place? (Emergence)
UK release date: 3 April 2006
Adam Kesher - Where's My Place?

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Adam Kesher is the name of a band. Yeah, I was fooled too. Hailing from Bordeaux, France, Adam Kesher was formed in 2002 by Julien Perez (vocals) and Gaetan Didelot (guitar). According to their website, the next two years were spent "arousing some interest within the hip crowd of the underground milieu...".

Yukkkk. Hang on. Pause the review. Excuse me while I just vomit. Okay, onward... in 2004 they recruited Jerome Alban (guitar), David Argellies (bass), Matthieu Beck (keyboards) and Yann Stofer (drums) and started touring as a six-piece; a fully-fledged band, no less! Where's My Place is a polished, synth-driven number that is clearly the French answer to the dance-rock revolution that is the trend of the moment. It's not so much a bad record as a pretty... empty one, with nothing to say despite grandiose pretensions. If you listened to it in isolation, i.e. if it was the only music you had heard for the past five years, then you would probably think it was fantastic.

Problem is, it is highly derivative and adds nothing extra to what's already been said and done before by bands like The Rapture, Franz Ferdinand and Interpol. The vocal also becomes like nails down a blackboard after a certain point, with Perez sounding like a spoiled child. "Where's my place?", Julien keeps screaming. "The corner, Julien, the corner!" the rest of the class scream back.


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