Magnet – ‘Fall At Your Feet’ (Atlantic) Released 05/12/05

If you like your guitar music emotional, melancholy and very, very drippy then Magnet – aka Norwegian songsmith Even Johansen  - may well be your man. To be honest we prefer ours with a bit more substance and vibrancy. Listening to ‘Fall At Your Feet’, on the surface it’s hard to knock his well crafted tunes, his waif-like voice and all that shit, but really it’s just boring as fuck. Lo-fi and slightly moving, it’s very little surprise that some Magnet tunes have wormed their way on to that stalwart for middling, soppy balladeering - The OC soundtrack. Now, where’s that bloody strong coffee to wake us up?