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78

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  • Summary: Produced by Seb Lewsley and Edwyn Collins, Vic Godard re-records songs from the Subway Sect 1979 demo with Paul Myers, former Sex Pistol Paul Cook, Kevin Younger, Mark Braby, and Yusuf B’Layachi.
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  1. Nov 19, 2014
    80
    Every song has a brilliantly shiny chorus, chord changes that inspire deep nostalgic feels, and a snappy, tough-minded lyrical outlook that fit the era and still sounds right in 2014.
  2. Uncut
    Nov 19, 2014
    80
    For Godard, it bridged punk and his Tony Bennett phase, with the band sporting knock-off Fred Perrys at the height of goth gloom-mongering. [Nov 2014, p.75]
  3. Mojo
    Nov 19, 2014
    80
    They are strange, sibylline and gorgeous. [Nov 2014, p.94]
  4. Q Magazine
    Nov 19, 2014
    60
    It's definitely soul [Vic Godard's] way. [Nov 2014, p.111]
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  1. Jun 1, 2018
    10
    This is a great album by Vic Godard, from start to finish. It has a continuity that makes it flow naturally, great songs that sound fresh andThis is a great album by Vic Godard, from start to finish. It has a continuity that makes it flow naturally, great songs that sound fresh and original. And the songs could have been written in both the 1979 and the 21st century. That's why the album sounds like the best times of English punk rock or the new retro rock of the present day. A great record and a great singer of the golden times of punk rock. Expand