How much can an album really achieve when it sounds like such a blatant rip-off of The Beach Boys?
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There has always been a certain level of adulation placed upon those few bands that could successfully maintain their signature sound while continuing to make sonically diverse music.
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There is something thrilling about listening to musical talent growing up in public.
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Arab Strap could make the most sordid, depressingly normal details of the socially retarded seem interesting.
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There will always be those who will try to tell you how music should be.
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Paddy Mann’s 18-track storybook album is among the most achingly beautiful and fully realised releases of recent memory.
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New York City quartet The Jealous Girlfriends are not the saviours of rock 'n roll, thankfully.
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Like a Michael Bay movie which can’t manage its copious special effects.
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Phylactery Factory is a record that may come to be seen as an early masterpiece in an illustrious, if undervalued, career.
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Pop moves in mysterious ways – or at least it does in cycles.
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By naming their sophomore effort Apocalypso, Sydney’s The Presets are making a statement of intent.
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When it comes to trip-hop, Blue Lines is ground zero.
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