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Dignan Porch
- Record Label: Captured Tracks
- Release Date: Aug 14, 2012
- Artist(s): Joe Walsh, Sam Walsh, Ben Goodwin, Hayley Akins
- Summary: Joe Walsh returns with his second release as Dignan Porch, this time as a full band with four new members: Hayley Akins, Ben Goodwin, Stephen Keane, and Sam Walsh.
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- Record Label: Captured Tracks
- Genre(s): Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Noise Pop
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Aug 30, 2012Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen has flashes of brilliance and moments where they're still figuring out what to do, but overall, it shows them growing into something new as gracefully as they can.
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Aug 30, 2012The Londoners' ramshackle summer vibes are still happy to coast along on a slacker wave rather than streamlining too directly.
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Aug 30, 2012Dignan Porch are slightly less effective at a less sprightly pace, veering too close to the point of collapse on 'And Are Now Not', but this is a fine exercise in pearly, bleary eyed acid pop.
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Aug 30, 2012Throughout all 13 of these tracks, whether fuzzed-out and aggressive or scuffed-up and jaunty, the band is so laid-back and mellow that there's never a break in the mantra: Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen [sic].
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Q MagazineSep 7, 2012It's far from perfect but still worthy of investigation. [Oct 2012, p.97]
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Aug 30, 2012They're the opening band you actually kinda enjoyed even though you showed up too early by mistake, the album you half remember liking when it was playing in a friend's car.
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Aug 30, 2012Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen, as a whole, doesn't contribute anything terribly original to the genre, and as such doesn't make much of a lasting impression on the listener.