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This is perhaps not the classic Definitely Maybe has become, but with their army of live followers accumulated since Christmas, combined with that ready made clear charisma and cocky confidence--if anyone can revive Manchester, it is the Courteeners.
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St Jude may be occasionally derivative, but it's also solid, confident and, musically at least, rewarding.
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St Jude is conclusive proof they have far more interesting things to say when they let the tunes do the talking.
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There's a fine songwriter somewhere inside frontman Liam Fray--but first he has to bust his way out of a genre that the world has long ago left behind.
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St Jude proves that there is much more to The Courteeners than first meets to the eye.
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Q MagazineFray's acute sense of geography, both local and emotional, guides the band's hectically directionless indie rattle down some alluring paths. [May 2008, p.137]
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The Courteeners sound like troglodytes on the rampage.