If you've watched TV and seen the new iPod adverts, the one thing you're likely to remember from it is the in your face, punk rock sounding single that's playing in the background. That is Steriogram's debut release Walkie Talkie Man which experiments with guitar driven music and catchy rhythms to give a record that you can't help but create some sort of movement to.
Kennedy's vocals whiz past the music in an amateur rapping sort of way to give creative but inaudible lyrics that can somehow be linked to the idea of a Walkie Talkie Man. However, lyrics are overpowered by the modernised poppy Green Day/ Offspring sound of the record and grabs you from the beginning and is often hard to describe without the use of a sound effect.
With its fast speaking vocals and catchy beats, Walkie Talkie Man is definitely a single that has hit branded all over it. Accessible by all ages, it is a prominent feature on mainstream music television but has also, deservedly so, gained a great response from well-respected radio station XFM. If all Steriogram songs have as much energy and shazam as this then they're definitely a New Zealand act which will survive longer and become more well known than some of New Zealand's alternative musical options like Che Fu...
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