I’M BEING GOOD  -  Mountain Language

Album Review

By Bradfod Midleton

I’m Being Good have long been my favourite Brighton band even before I knew they were actually from here so you imagine my joy when having been here about six months – nearly four years ago now – I was delighted to read they were doing a show with uber-slacker under achievers Truman’s Water at a hall just nearby where I lived then.  What a show it was too and since then I have been lucky enough to see them a few more times, even though they don’t play that often and boy what a ferocious racket these guys can make.  Led by the incomparably talented Andrew Clare, whose worked with the likes of Derek Bailey and Thurston Moore, these guys have developed a sound that whilst sounding familiar is indeed somewhat original.  Partly based on the same slacker agenda that made bands like Pavement so great they also incorporate the kind of cosmic sludge that is reminiscent of anyone from the point between the early Mogwai noise epics and the general doom of legendary band The Melvins.  These guys are doing themselves a disservice by calling themselves I’m Being Good they really should call themselves I’m Being Completely Fantastic and this album is testament to a band who don’t really care if anyone likes them they just do it for the love of doing it unlike so many of our local bands.  This is the best album of the year from Brighton and is definitely in top ten of any album made by a UK band.