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- Summary: Formally known as The Bridges, the British band returns with a label, a new name, and a new album.
- Record Label: WEA/Warner
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 11
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Mixed: 6 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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Thanks to Clarke's well-developed tune sense and his bandmates' primal need for speed, We'll Live and Die in These Towns doesn't sound the way life in a cubicle feels; if anything, it replicates the adrenaline rush of one of those YouTube videos in which a stir-crazy office worker decimates a copy machine.
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So here's what's brilliant about this band: the 11 songs here offer no solution, no way out and very little hope, making We'll Live and Die in These Towns as bleak in its own way as the Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible. The songs are brilliant, too.
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As debut albums go, it's unnerving that The Enemy are already this good and yet barely old enough to buy their own champagne when the ridiculously high chart placings inevitably come in.
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Fact is, the Enemy are better than that, and their debut full-length is also certainly better than some kind of classic Britpop rehash.
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That’s not to say that the Enemy are on anywhere near the scale of awfulness which the Ordinary Boys descended to, but the flaws in We Live and Die in These Towns mar an album which does have some silver linings.
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The point being that this album isn’t “terrible,” just sort of dull and boring.
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Under The RadarThese three Coventry lads crank out a predictable rock album with no real direction at all. [Fall 2008, p.86]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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DonJJul 30, 2007
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Sep 4, 2016
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