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- Summary: This is the first LP for the Sheffield, England co-ed five-piece fronted by Kate Jackson. Steve Mackey (Pulp) produced.
- Record Label: Rough Trade
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
| Knife for the Girls | |
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| you gave me a chance at the palais de danse to prove i'm worth your time you gave me a chance to prove i'm more then just an also-ran A Knife For... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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The one-time Best Unsigned Band In The Country have come up trumps with a debut album brimming with whip-smart, post-riot-grrl attitude.
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Although none of the new material is even remotely bad, a handful of diverse tracks on the album's second half exceed the high standards set by the hand-picked singles.
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Most so-called "cinematic" records earn that distinction due to some quirk of reverb or their use of space, but the Long Blondes only have modern England's typically confined, 17-year-old-from-Doncaster guitar-dudish sound. Instead, it's the songs themselves, their narratives, and their characters that speak to the band's widescreen ambitions.
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Someone to Drive You Home is one of those albums that's honest to goodness fun, and pulling it off with as much pastiche as the Long Blondes makes it one of the year's nicest arrivals.
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An unexpected delight.
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The songs, sometimes overtly formalist and stylistically unadventurous, are invigorated by the enthusiasm and character of their delivery.
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The problem is that all this stuff sounds terribly dated already.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 0 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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AllanC.Oct 1, 2007One of the top albums of 2007 for me.
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SamBMay 16, 2007
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DatewithIkeaJan 25, 2007Of course I love it
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BLDMay 21, 2007Awesome and energetic!
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PaulTDec 7, 2006
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f.Dec 21, 2006coooool as hell,i love it. :D
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mikeyffJun 21, 2007
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