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A less marketable, but equally accurate description is blooming enjoyable pop music.
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Lisa Hannigan seems to have an overflowing idea bank with which to go forth and flourish.
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Not all surface and definitely not so silly
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Textbook examples of electronica
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Great company if you're in a certain mood. But possibly not if you have a headache.
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A smooth mix of political and personal, sincere and satirical.
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An unapologetic homage to the celluloid and stage musical.
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Success and autonomy, accessibility and creativity. All in a day's work for White Denim.
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The record is the ultimate, all-encapsulating mood swing of its matriarch.
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An album doubtless more fun to perform than to hear.
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Mr E turns lupine, gets primal and cranks the dial to distort.
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Fin Greenall presents a third outing in his singer-songwriter hat.
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Journal For Plague Lovers is enigmatic, engulfed, enraged.
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The band strike while their iron’s hot, but fail to set anyone’s world on fire.
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Manchester offers up its latest rock offering.
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Funk-tinged pop to an audience engrossed in the fashion for fusion.
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The Glaswegian indie pop band grow more epic with their fourth long-awaited album.
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A delicious and surprisingly commercial mix.
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Already lightly blessed by good time associations.
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The second chance may well have been squandered.
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A band you want to like, but based on this sketchy offering it's hard to see the point.
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One band who have dodged, or shunned the draining corporate mentality.
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Performed with the personality with which it is imbued.
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It's a knowing but loving, and exuberant dissection of their native culture.
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Tonight is a half-realised dream.
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This album is a great teaser for future gems.
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The walls and surfaces here are as much an instrument as the drums themselves.
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Because they don't sound like anyone else.
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Missiles is not an accurate representation of what The Dears have to offer.
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A quality ensemble playing tracks already beloved in their original form
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If you like landscapes with your soundscapes, this one's for you.
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Deserving of your full attention
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An album rich in character and full of nostalgic spirit.
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Great; but only if you're too young to have heard it all before.
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This former buzz band have missed the boat.
