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One thing often missing from UK indie bands, with their far-off gazes and sweeping string-backed epics is a sense of humour. When did you last see Thom Yorke cracking a joke between numbers or Liam Gallagher pulling out a rubber chicken midway through a song? Well, bizarre drug-addled experiences aside, the answer is not very often. Southampton's Slow Smile however have no such pretentions. The decision to cover Take That's mighty teen knicker-wetting opus is amusing enough, but turning it into an electro-goth metallic machine that bears hardly any resemblance to the original tune is getting close to Vic and Bob level of genius. - Headcleaner zine |
MP3.com CD: Back For Good - buy it!
CD: Back For Good
Label: Rice Pudding Records
Credits: (Gary Barlow) EMI Virgin Music Ltd 100% |
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Unbarred - "The second track Wake up! yet again has the same sense of humour that makes this CD stand out, only The Mighty Handful have amused me more, oh and Agebaby's Girlfriend (but she's a lesbian). Wake up! describes perfectly the sort of thing that is going around everyone's mind when their alarm wakes them in morning;
only it doesn't quite as funny then. |
MP3.com CD: Back For Good - buy it!
CD: Back For Good
Label: Rice Pudding Records
Credits: Gary Burt |
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The last track on this truly unique offering
is "Meteor Shower", a fuzzed-up garage blast
that is cooler-than-cool entirely because
of its Patrick Moore namecheck. |
MP3.com CD: Back For Good - buy it!
CD: Back For Good
Label: Rice Pudding Records
Credits: Gary Burt |
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