CMU Approved

Approved: Capital X

By | Published on Monday 22 November 2010

Currently celebrating their silver jubilee (it’s 25 years since they were born), Julz and Ruby, aka Capital X, spent the summer giving away all manner of exclusive items of merchandise. The icing on their birthday cake is their new EP, ‘The Power Pack’, which also comes with one of seven trading cards for you to collect. I like their sense of fun. I also like their urgent electro sound, mixing pop sounds with fast-paced rock songwriting.

‘The Power Pack’ picks up where the duo’s debut single, ‘Club Midnight’, left off, with beefier production filling out the sound. Still, this loses nothing of the simplicity of the synth and drum machine compositions that sit under Julz’s strong vocals, designed to hook around your ears and shake you up and down. All five songs are good, but ‘Trailblazer’ in particular stands out, featuring the sort of chorus any band would be proud of.

www.myspace.com/capitalxuk



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