With the growth in popularity continuing steadily, electronic music and its vast sub genres are getting a longer wave than anticipated. This is also giving opportunities for new acts to emerge in a still commercially successful category. David Turpin is one such act, releasing his debut album Haunted into a genre that never seems to end. But that doesn’t mean any old thing will be accepted. And that’s just the problem. With the Pop side of electronic music being controlled by the likes of LeRoux, It is hard to think of any similar music being anything more than a below par imitation. Now maybe that would be considered music snobbery, but in David Turpin’s case, regardless of why it is judged so, Haunted is definitely below par. The album seems to be caught in two minds, a comparative to 808’s on the production side but with a lot less effort, the vocals are something not quite adhesive enough. Not wanting to sound too cruel, but at times the album is so insipid it could have been released by on of the members of N*Sync nobody knows the name of. The stand out track is most definitely Dorothy Gale, but is the only one worth mentioning as this record never takes off or captures enough interest to give it a second listen. A feeble attempt. 2/5
words by Dave Quinn
(please note article originally printed for Connected Magazine)