Matinee - Jack Penate
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  1. KateB.
    Apr 6, 2008
    3
    Oh dear. Why are you wasting my time? You sound like Scouting for Girls and you do a little dance with your feet when you sing. Just no.

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53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. All Music Guide
    60
    Here was a chance to show that the music was worthy, too. With a singing style in the cockney accent of Lily Allen or Kate Nash, he differentiated himself from these singers by actually playing the guitar himself, with mixture of skiffle and ska
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  2. Blender
    60
    Even when he tries to make a connection between pickup lines and international tension, in “Made of Codes,” Peñate never forgets that even quasi-protest songs need a good beat.
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  3. Dot Music
    50
    Matinee is quite good; but 50 years on from the birth of rock'n'roll, quite good just isn't really good enough anymore.
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