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- Summary: 'Days' is the first album in over a dozen years for the reunited London-based alt-rockers, and is their first to include both original guitarists (Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers) since 1989.
- Record Label: Art And Industry
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Positive: 4 out of 8
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Mixed: 4 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Their sound is back to its subtle best, all Velvet Underground rhythms and guitars swooping over gentle melodies.
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Although the record shows scant evidence that over a decade of rock music has passed, the band doesn't sound anachronistic or out of touch alongside its younger competition.
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UncutAn album which has nothing to do with 2005 and everything to do with 1988. [Mar 2005, p.109]
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MojoThere are a few weak links... but there's a melodic buoyancy here. [Mar 2005, p.106]
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Alright, so there's no 'Destroy The Heart', the lyrics are uniformly unremarkable, and the odd track is even, dare we say, a touch ropey... 'Days Run Away' is still better than it's got any right to be, and a marginally heroic homecoming with it.
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Q MagazineAlas, they undermine themselves with a weedy production which too often gives proceedings a demo-ish air. [Mar 2005, p.99]
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New Musical Express (NME)Nothing here comes close to the claustrophobic, urgent brilliance of the early work. [26 Feb 2005, p.66]
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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PierreApr 9, 2005
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stephaneJun 7, 2005
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SimonFromLondonMay 7, 2005
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KevinPMay 17, 2005Good. Definitely good, but not great. "Kit Carter" is amazing as is "Gotta Be That Way".
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PhillipBMay 2, 2006It's hard to recapture past glories, especially when they were only fleeting in the first place. In the late
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