The album does feel a little overlong with a few of the tracks outliving their welcome. For the most part it is, however, fun for the fan of off-kilter pop.
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Albert Hammond, Jr. – ¿Cómo Te Llama?
He is a man who is doomed to be forever known either as ‘that guy from the Strokes’ or the son of a legendary songwriter mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song (Except to dullards like the NME staffer who saw fit to entitle a story ‘Strokes’ dad to be inducted into Songwriter’s Hall of Fame’).
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Pete and the Pirates – Little Death
The flitting and darting songs will sit well on daytime radio play-lists, and as such will reach the ears of the listening public.
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Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck – The Days Come and Go
Mockingbird has a knack for catchy song-writing and a brilliant pop sensibility.
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Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff [Deluxe Edition]/ The Lucky Ones
It may be more of a straight-ahead, balls-out rock record than they have produced in a while, but it just cannot compete with the sheer youthful exuberance, viscera and punk energy of Superfuzz.
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Disco Drive – Things To Do
What? What! What?!’ is how one of the songs on Things To Do begins, and I must confess to being similarly confused myself while listening to this record by Disco Drive.
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Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee – Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee
The homespun nature of the project is emphasised by the art-work – paintings bought at charity shops in East London.
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The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
When it works, it is great unashamed good time music. Unfortunately it doesn’t work often enough.
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Sharron Kraus – The Fox’s Wedding
It is nice to hear someone who is so determinedly out of step with modernity. Indeed it seems something of a surprise that she has engaged with the modern world enough to have a website.
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Sennen – Where The Light Gets In
The former attachment to the Glaswegian noise merchants can be heard in tracks such as the squally burst of sound that is Sennen Enjoy Life (whose title may well be a nod to Mogwai Fear Satan)
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