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- Summary: This is the second album for the British garage rockers.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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ABO keep the music tight and enclosed to match the lyrical mood, making Derdang Derdang a succinct, purposeful statement.
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UncutBlends bluegrass, backwoods folk and hammered blues with a motorik groove. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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It's a journey through the West Country trio's brand of infectious bluesy garage rock and evocative of a head on collision between The Kills and the Arcade Fire.
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There's an impressive coherence on Derdang Derdang, showing how well ABO has developed an original and guiding aesthetic.
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SpinThey sound ready to take on Franz Ferdinand. [Aug 2006, p.76]
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What this band needs is a microphone maestro on the order of, say, an Albini, instead of the deep-fried Southern crunch that leaves these eleven songs sounding thin and brittle, ultimately highlighting their clear melodic and structural similarities until what could have been a gut-punching EP becomes a substantial-but-marred LP.
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These first five songs are like a good singles collection, every one of them free-standing and complete, none of them particularly relating to the others. The rest of the album is slighter and less compelling.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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BobRJul 24, 2007An album of dark uprising cool... love it
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LanceMAug 2, 2006
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JimmyBJul 27, 2006i just picked this up after a friend's suggestion - killer riffs, heavy jams, an overall balls out record with a lot of depth.
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BalsamoAug 1, 2006Totally unpretentious, down and dirty weirdness that rocks, surprises and beguiles. Great b/w garage video on their web page.
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TimNJul 29, 2006
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