It might seem like a band as tight as the Advantage would be wasted talent playing only Nintendo covers, but they’d probably be sadly overlooked doing anything else. Note-for-note perfection is hardly a virtue in most rock circles, so if you want to be polished and still get noticed, you’d better be soundtracking giant robots exploding (or whatever they did in Metroid). Gimmicks aside, these guys do have a great reverence for the musicality of the old NES MIDI melodies, and their years of finger exercise on tiny controllers has paid off. But that doesn’t mean they’re getting away with two albums in a row of swift, dry run-throughs of old video game songs. Elf-Titled is mildly entertaining, but repetitive; as a Nintendo cover band, they just keep on playing Nintendo songs. That’s not to say the “Moon” theme from Ducktales isn’t glorious, but the songs start to sound like bad prog once you realize you’re not kicking ass on a TV screen, just listening to four nerds cranking out the background music
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