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- Summary: This is the second full-length release for the British rock band led by Izzy B. Phillips.
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- Record Label: Orchard
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 4 out of 6
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Mixed: 2 out of 6
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Apr 21, 2021Phillips and her band of brothers have created their own cinematic universe, full of sleazy B-movie villains and femme fatales, a world where glamour and sleaze, heartbreak and redemption walk side by side. But Written and Directed expands that hyper-real world, with horns, choirs, crashing guitars, and the occasional foray into New Wave pop (“Back of the Bar”) and is perhaps the album they were born to make.
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Mar 18, 2021‘Written And Directed’ is a thrilling step up from a band quietly coming into their own.
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Mar 18, 2021‘Written & Directed’ sees the quartet evolving into the rock outfit they’d always threatened to be.
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Classic Rock MagazineMar 18, 2021Their sugar-coated badass swagger might be toothless and adolescent, but sometimes teenage dreams are hard to beat. [Mar 2021, p.87]
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Mar 18, 2021Philips is very much the band’s driving force. Her musical persona is a collage of punk-rock heroines and sliver-screen starlets. She has the rebelliousness of Kathleen Hanna with the lusty charm of Poison Ivy.
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Mar 19, 2021Black Honey have lost as well as gained, but this is a confident comeback.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mar 22, 2021Blends rock and alt together to make some good tracks, if not interesting at least.
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