San Cisco Admit Response To First Album Hasn’t Been Good

When Perth indie band San Cisco burst onto the scene in 2011 with their hit Awkward, many a music fan and critic were probably expecting their debut LP to be filled of bubblegum-tastic pop tracks.

That wasn't exactly the case and their drummer Scarlett Stevens has openly admitted the response to the album hasn't been all that positive.

“It hasn't been an overwhelmingly good response,” she revealed in a recent interview.

“I mean, it has been good but it wasn't getting critically acclaimed or anything – I really think it confused a lot of people. I'm not saying it's the best album and everyone misunderstood because it's not the best album, but I think people didn't think it would have such serious aspects to it. I think people thought it would have Awkward all the way when it really is a mish-mash of us listening to lots of different music, so there are lots of different sounds in there.”

Despite the criticism, Stevens isn't too fazed by the tall poppy syndrome that seems to happen here in Australia.

“But yeah, reviews or whatever are...” she paused “this reviewer – I don't know how you can get this from our performance – said that I looked like the Mama Bear. I was really insulted. But it's not bad, really, as we don't really experience anything too bad or anything as bad as when I was actually in a child band – I was in The Flairz and people were really nasty and I was only really little. But yeah, no one has been too spiteful or anything, but I do think the thing is that the tone is really different here in Australia, there's the whole tall poppy thing here where I think overseas, it quickly becomes very neutral and there's no biases; they don't know the history of the band and it's completely different. I think people here, although it's been all positive, you get a bit of backlash for being liked by triple j or even just being popular quickly becomes a negative thing.”

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