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- Summary: The band led by David Gedge releases its latest album, produced by Steve Albini.
- Record Label: Manifesto
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Gedge and Albini is a match made in heaven, and El Rey is an excellent follow-up to one of their finest works together.
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No matter how fraught or heartbroken these stories get, each is gifted with an indelible chorus, and even the few tracks of sort-of filler like 'Soup' are performed with enough verve and energy that El Rey zips by.
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El Rey has its share of surprises, mostly in the vein of its particular subject, which is the cruelty older men visit on younger women, and vice versa. But mostly it's merely another Wedding Present record: witty, randy, guitar-heavy, and not quite satisfied.
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It’s a mere change of scenery, then, that separates this from much of the Wedding Present’s canonical work; the scabrous schoolboy humor of their 1987 debut, "George Best," has become the scabrous, middle-aged cynicism of El Rey.
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One for the fans, but it would be churlish to deny that the Wedding Present still have plenty to offer.
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El is the kind of album you listen to once--and appreciate--but never really groove through with any regularity.
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UncutMaybe it's not Albini's fault that El Rey lacks the melodic thrust of earlier projects, but this is wiry, unappealing fare. [July 2008, p.114]
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