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- Record Label: Divine Comedy Records
- Release Date: Jul 1, 2013
- Summary: Cricket is the theme on the second full-length release for the Irish pop duo.
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- Record Label: Divine Comedy Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jul 1, 2013Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon and Pugwash’s Thomas Walsh strike another fine balance between cricket’s arcane specifics and its universal metaphors in cucumber-crisp batches of catch-all pastiche-pop.
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Jun 27, 2013Cricket and rock music have a long history, and at points it all gets a bit glamorous. Sticky Wickets isn’t concerned with those though: it takes the thinga that makes the loner, the geek, the loser, the tragic feel all warm and fuzzy, and then makes that sound like ELO. And nothing this year has made me feel happier than that.
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Jun 28, 2013The follow-on to their beloved titular 2009 debut finds Duckworth and Lewis exploring further aspects of the beautiful game, from its amateur enjoyability and levelling qualities to the euphonious variety of its argot.
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Jun 27, 2013Once again, they have come up with a lovingly crafted tribute to the idiosyncrasies of England’s summer sport, and those who approach it as a bit of harmless fun will be humming these songs with a smile on their face at least until the final ball of the Ashes series is bowled.
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Jul 3, 2013Love the way cricket brings out people’s most eccentric traits? Then love this.
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Jun 27, 2013It’s impossible to listen to Sticky Wickets without amusement, but on occasion the procession of guests and parade of pastiches threaten to encroach into “novelty” territory.
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Jul 1, 2013It's all a bit silly but fond and well intentioned.
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