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Refashioning 60s pop for today's pilled-up generation? Not such a bad idea, as it happens, even if it is a bit Spiritualized.
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Q MagazineWhile the songwriting draws heavily on bigwigs such as Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson, albeit ckloaked in layers of woozy production. This is its chief asset, providing a dark undertow. [Oct 2009, p.111]
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What potentially made Album exciting was that it seemed to understand that pop itself doesn't make sense, and that it can still work just as well with all the wrong notes in all the wrong order.
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Don’t get me wrong, Album’s best songs (Lust for Life, Laura, and Hellhole Ratrace) are utterly essential, but take these out of the equation and there’s really very little to get excited about. Unless you count the band’s back-story, that is.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 64
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Mixed: 7 out of 64
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Negative: 6 out of 64
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ChristianP.Sep 26, 2009Embarrassingly overrated. one great song, and even that is about twice as long as it needs to be. What a bore.
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Feb 25, 2018This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Mar 24, 2017