Second and fifth single from ESP's debut LP, "Holes In The Wall" (DB Records, 2002).

Holes in the Wall is the debut studio album by The Electric Soft Parade, released on 4 February 2002. The album was released by db Records and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. The album features a wide array of sounds, ranging from hard-edged guitar rock (namely "Start Again" and "Why Do You Try So Hard to Hate Me"), anthemic pop (the epic "Silent to the Dark"), and somber acoustic tracks like "It's Wasting Me Away".

The Electric Soft Parade have made an album that surprises, entertains and, at times, makes you thankful that each year some new kids arrive on the scene with fresh ideas and clever chord arrangements which teach the bigger boys a thing or two. "Empty at the End", for example, with its classic guitar solos and catchy chorus, is a stonkingly good indie anthem that easily sits alongside Oasis's "Rock 'n' Roll Star" and The Charlatans "North Country Boy". The Hammond organs, the clean vocal harmonies and funky guitar rhythms evident on Holes In The Wall are not particularly challenging, but on occasion, such as "Something's Got To Give" and "Silent To The Dark", ESP produce fantastic songs with surprising confidence and style. The band don't break any barriers; much of what they have done has been done before; see Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque or lesser known 90s indie kids Geneva or even Little Mothers.

Electric Soft Parade. Holes in the Wall Tracklist. 2. Empty At The End Lyrics. 3. Theres A Silence Lyrics. 4. Somethings Got To Give Lyrics.

11. Biting the Soles of My Feet. 12. Red Balloon for Me. 4:12. 12 Songs, 55 Minutes. Released: Feb 1, 2002. More By The Electric Soft Parade. A Quick One - EP. 2011. No Need to Be Downhearted.

Holes In The Wall’ is one of the most impressive debut albums of 2002. The Electric Soft Parade are a couple of sullen, posh kids from Brighton, but they. may just have saved British pop music. Incredible, really, because ‘Holes In The Wall’ is one of the most monumentally. clueless records ever – it gives itself away every five seconds but somehow comes up. stinking of roses. It’s a gargantuan piece of psychedelic pop theatre that. wheels off into the rampaging ‘Empty At The End’ –. like Radiohead‘s ‘Pablo Honey’ album. Can they keep it up? Yes, they can. From here on in, the hits just keep on coming. Even a nine-minute blow out on ‘Silent To. The Dark’ can’t entirely mask the fact that it’s a totally awesome tune

by Electric Soft Parade. Record Label: DB. Release Date: Feb 4, 2002. Summary: This is the debut album for psychedlic British indie-rockers Electric Soft Parade (actually two teenage brothers, Tom and Alex White), drawing comparisons to everyone from Grandaddy and the Charlatans to Teenage Fanclub and Buffalo Springfield. Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative. Score distribution: Positive: 6 out of 9.