A Weekend In The City screams grey. It does so loudly and repeatedly, hoping vainly, that someone, anyone, is dumb enough to take a second glance.
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The first album die-hards hate it.
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Evolution in music is a funny thing.
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The Year of the Leopard affected Tom Bradbury in a way that he had not anticipated.
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Put simply, this is an album of incredible beauty and profound honesty.
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of Montreal’s Hissing Fauna is a frenetic fun-fest.            
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Friend Opportunity proves that spending big bucks on glossier production values doesn’t necessarily make for a stronger artistic statement...
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What kind of pre-pubescent, cock-rock, acronymic wearing posturising is this???
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Is there any musician more hobbled by preconceptions than “The Singer/Songwriter”?
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Double albums are notoriously a hubris-filled, extravagant exercise in self-righteous buffoonery.
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Come out; come out, sweet Camera Obscura, out from that vile shadow of the Belle and Sebastian beast. We have been waiting...
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In an era of ultra-cool and bright and shiny there is bravery in gripping on to the action figures and slightly mutilated dolls with your grubby little opposable thumbs.
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