Another nice review just in. People seem to pick up on the honesty we tried to put in our music (and in any other aspect of our lives for that matter). Some interviews are scheduled for the near future... watch this ...erhm space.

http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article_album.php?id=5763

ex-dEUS alt-rock veterans deliver a characteristically understated album that will haunt you for days
On Your House is a hard album to put in a box; essentially, it's an alternative rock album, but that's a huge oversimplification.

Some history may help to explain where Pox are coming from. Front-man Mark Meyers and guitarist Rudy Trouvé were both members of the earliest incarnation of dEUS, arguably Belgium's best known and most seminal indie outfit, as well as a slew of lesser-known acts. If you're familiar with the work of dEUS, the texture of Pox's material will not be entirely surprising – indeed, it should be a pleasant reminder.

But let's assume you've never heard of dEUS, and describe On Your House from the ground up. Or rather, let's describe what On Your House isn't. It isn't the sort of shiny, polished and knowingly smug guitar-band product that clogs the lower reaches of the charts. Instead, Pox strip everything back to basics and revel in the merits of simplicity; the minimal and unobtrusive production lets the songs shine through.

And the songs themselves? Introspective and personal, they evoke a level of confessional honesty that is hard to find outside of the singer-songwriter circuit. This is music from the heart - not story-telling to create an image but trying to deliver the more intimate truths of experience, and the lack of pretence is strengthened by the post-rock instrumentation. Guitars jangle and whine; pianos vamp disjointedly in the background, alongside organ and synth patches hidden in the undergrowth; the drums rattle and spatter their way through sparse back-beats. And all the way through, Meyers sings his lyrics in a wrenched and desperate fashion that calls to mind drunken confessionals in the kitchen of a party that long since saw the dawn. Honest, haunting, understated – three rare values indeed.

So little hope of Pox rubbing shoulders with the Kaiser Chiefs of the world ... but I can't say that makes me particularly sad, and I doubt the band themselves are particularly bothered either. Like the bands  that went before them, Pox are primarily interested in making the music they want to make, and delivering it to those who are interested. As On Your House demonstrates, ignoring them is your loss, not theirs.

By: Paul Raven