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Aug 20, 2015The album stutters when influences are writ too large--Stevie Wonder on Dogtown and Razorlight on Desperate Boy--and it all runs out of steam towards the end. Still, as the anthemic, U2-like piano ballad Slow demonstrates quite ably, they’re in no mood to be written off.
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MojoAug 17, 2015While the boisterousness that made 2006 single Chelsea Dagger so welcome on the terraces of Stamford Bridge is successfully repurposed on Baby Don't You Lie To Me! and Too Much Wine, and Thief motors like Lady Madonna on Stevie's Higher Ground, other fruits of this reunion with producer Tony Hoffer--see the mellotron-mangled Rosanna--soon sour. [Sep 2015, p.94]
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Aug 17, 2015Eyes Wide Tongue Tied is more testament to subtlety and getting the basics right.
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UncutAug 27, 2015Few of these chugging bar-room stompers register as earworms, even after repeated listens. [Oct 2015, p.76]
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Aug 24, 2015This sense of rejuvenation is somewhat stunted by the inclusion of some Fratellis standards. The results range from the exhilarating 'Baby Don't You Lie To Me!' to the tediously dull plod of 'Rosanna'.
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Aug 19, 2015On occasion, it’s actually borderline thrilling but those moments are too few and far between.
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Aug 17, 2015[The Fratellis] still lack an identity beyond the decent Glaswegian doggedness that has got them this far.
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Aug 17, 2015There are occasional moments of unalloyed pleasure on this, but frankly not near enough to persuade one that The Fratellis reunion was worthwhile.
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