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- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Release Date: Apr 20, 2009
- Summary: This is the first album on Cooking Vinyl for the British indie rock band.
- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 6
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Mixed: 4 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Though the stylistic lucidity of Please and Thank You will sound like monotony to some, what I tend to hear is a consistently strong batch of songs with a casual sort of thematic unity to them.
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MojoGraceful and witty with 'Old Wounds' and mordant and terse in the spiky 'St. Albans,' while the sublime 'Mimi' reveals a storyteller's eye for nuance and character. [May 2009, p.102]
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UncutThe BFB have constructed thier new LP around the theme of "being nice to people," although their lyrics drip with irony and thier musical tone is gruff. [May 2009, p.79]
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they'll probably stay under the radar, but this seventh album is required listening for anyone with a penchant for observational lyrics sung in an impossibly world-weary voice.
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It would be nice to see The Broken Family Band attempting something other than the boringly retrograde rock on display in Please And Thank You.
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No matter what instruments are used, their weedy, aggro-pop retains the impression that it’s the chosen soundtrack for lifeless 35-year-olds stuck uncomfortably in suburbia.