Customer Reviews
Promising Debut - By: Echoes And Dust, 06 May 2008 
As a reviewer there are some albums you write about because you want to & some albums you write about through duty & because no bugger else in the office will. I have to admit that `The Colourful Life' started out in the second category, but by the end of the third track I realised I was being won over.
Cajun Dance Party seem to have been around for ages, certainly the music industry hype machine has been spinning in their direction for a while now, but here at the point of release for their debut album is where the talking stops & the music has to take over.
I don't know whether it's the innocent naivety of the songs, the band are alll ludicrously young, or the precociousness of their musicality or just the fact that they write infectiously catchy songs, but I have to admit that they seem to have delivered with this record.
While their sound has plenty of contemporary touch points & in places certainly owes more than a tip of the hat to those Monkeys of the Arctic variety, there is much more to this set than any bandwagon jumping. The influence of producer Bernard Butler is very apparent & while he lends a mature head to the youthful exuberance on display, he occasionallly imparts an atmosphere that is firmly rooted in the 1990's which is welcome in places but I'm not sure that it's always a good thing.
The first three tracks, `Colourful Life', `The Race' (the next single) & `Time Fallls' clip along at a fair old pace but it's the single from way back last year `The Next Untouchable' that reallly pricks up the ears. A great slice of Indie Pop & no question.
As debuts go this certainly more accomplished than I would have expected from a band who are still at school (is that just the bitterness of age?), `No Joanna' & the album closer `The Hill, The View And The Lights' display a depth that one would not expect from calllow youths & that bodes well for their future.
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