Stars Of CCTV - Hard-Fi
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Universal acclaim- based on 43 Ratings

  • Summary: The English indie rockers garnered a lot of attention with this debut album, which combines elements of ska, dance and punk.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. The wonder of 'Stars...' is how magnificently alive all this suburban angst sounds.
  2. These guys are passionate about what they're doing.
  3. A rousing debut. [Aug 2005, p.123]
  4. Hard-Fi don't quite have the lyrical prowess or songwriting chops yet to make the dent they'd like. [#13, p.92]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 35
  2. Negative: 2 out of 35
  1. EdwardM
    10
    Probably the most energetic album I've heard in the last 5 years. It takes a few listens to fully appreciate, but after that you'll be hooked. Expand
  2. An album that tries too hard to push its working class motives. That is the only thing that this album suffers from since I am not convinced about how the vocalist sings about the hardships of the British working class but aside from all of this, it's a cleverly layered album with catchy, joyful but strangely dark songs with Clash like guitar and crowd like atmosphere. Expand
  3. 7
    Coming along around the same time as Bloc Party, with similar themes, Hard-Fi lack the edge of their mid-noughties Indie Rock counterparts. Stars of CCTV is a reasonably impressive debut but is over produced. At times this production saves some of the more mediocre moments but too often the production serves to make the record sound like a million other things you'll have heard at the time. Worth checking out and picking out the handful of decent tracks on there. Expand
  4. RossR
    1
    I just dont get hard-fi, and not in the i dont know what your singing about stakes but in the what qualities do you have to enhance my life stakes lyrically, musically, to look at , to listen to in interviews there not even mediocre - they really have pulled a rabbit out of a hat with all the interest their getting Expand

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