Costello Music
- The Fratellis
- Band Name: The Fratellis
- Record Label: Cherry Tree / Island
- Release Date: Mar 13, 2007
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Their punchy choruses and propulsive garage riffs are as addictive as those of 2006 sensations Arctic Monkeys. [16 Mar 2007, p.69]
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Right now, their bouncing glamorama feels like the most important album you could own.
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80The record comes on like a sweaty, amphetamine-fuelled rehearsal room bash that went extraordinarily well. [Oct 2006, p.102]
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80Their witty pop vignettes are about as much fun as you can have alone with a stereo. [Oct 2006, p.109]
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80Costello Music crackles from top to bottom with nervous energy, confident songwriting, and hopeless confusion over girls, girls, girls.
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The Fratellis are beyond infectious.
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Most of Costello is like a madcap Glasgow pub crawl: It makes you elated in the moment and sorry when it's over.
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70The numbers which populate Costello Music are a darn sight better than Carl Barat and Pete Doherty's solo exploits.
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70Parochial pop somewhere between Supergrass and the Arctic Monkeys.
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It's pub rock, but smarter and more ambitious, with music as nimble as the lyrics are sharp.
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Fans might be better off putting "Flathead" on a homemade mix-tape than following the rest of Costello Music.
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The Fratellis won't change your life or any of your top-five lists. What the band will do, however, is give you a few good tunes to throw onto a Saturday night playlist while you wait for the real thing to come along.
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60Full of borrowed ideas put together in a not unpleasant or unoriginal way, their sound is still too close to the myriad other wannabes trailing in The Libertines' and Razorlight's wake. [Oct 2006, p.119]
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60There is a little too much tra-la-la-ing, but it's a pleasure to hear a new band having so much infectious fun. [24 Mar 2007]
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55[The] Fratellis aren't so much the sound of young Britain as the sound of dad's old record collection.
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The songs are incredibly catchy but also tediously misogynistic.
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The effect diminishes with each spin.
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