THE hype heap has been rising all around the Bennett boys and their low-key quintet from deepest rural Oxfordshire.
Goldrush have taken their time, changing their name and setting to work on Don't Bring Me Down at their own Steventon studio, before starting to record at Abbey Road the very day George Harrison died.
Cosmic Rough Riders and Witness briefly passed this melodic way before, without stirring the waters as deeply as they merited, but Goldrush could collect where Coldplay and Travis have prospered before them.
Teenage Fanclub and Harvest-era Neil Young spring to mind, but there is individuality to these folk-raised songs of heartbreak and pulling through, such as the unexpected intrusion of a tuba on Bright Eyes, the "Disney choirs" and wine glasses on Don't Bring Me Down and the off-the-radar bleakness of the falsetto Dead.
Best British rock debut of the year by a country mile.
Updated: 08:52 Thursday, September 26, 2002
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