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- Summary: Following 2000's 'We Love The City,' the self-produced 'Dead Media' is the UK band's fifth album in just four years.
- Record Label: Too Pure / Beggars Banquet
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 10
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Mixed: 4 out of 10
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Negative: 2 out of 10
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Dead Media thankfully brings the focus back to personal matters, and it sees a breath of fresh air introduced in the form of analog synthesizers and audio experimentation.
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As surefooted a return to form as could be.
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Alternative PressAt best, Dead Media delivers tuneful, hilarious, pathetic tales of lost schoolboy love. [Mar 2002, p.81]
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It begins to wilt with tedium as it continues, as the drum machines and synthesizers give way to unimaginative organic instrumentation and bland, stale melodies.
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Dead Media works on occasion, but primarily when Hefner revert to the traditional pop trio format of bass, guitar, drums.
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The new electronic direction is likely to lose more fans than it gains.
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Most of 'Dead Media' resembles a third rate Pulp, Denim or Babybird - steeped in tales of sexual disappointment in bedsit land but without the considerable charm, warmth and wit of the aforementioned bands.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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OliverI.Jan 31, 2002
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