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undyingking) wrote2008-10-14 04:48 pm
undyingking) wrote2008-10-14 04:48 pm
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Those Dancing Days again
You might have seen me previously banging on about excellent Swedish pop band Those Dancing Days. They've now all finished school, and have been signed by Wichita, home of such trendy luminaries as Bloc Party and My Morning Jacket. They're touring the UK. And they have an album out!
To be honest, In Our Space Hero Suits is not as good as I'd hoped. The older material is still brilliant, but if you already have the Those Dancing Days EP and the two recent singles 'Run Run' and 'Home Sweet Home', then you have all the best of it. The half-dozen or so new tracks come across mostly as somewhat hasty filler; not bad, just not as exciting. If on the other hand you don't have the earlier releases, or if like me you downladed them when they were free and now want to give something back to the band, then you could do worse than get the album: it has almost all the good stuff in one place.
I'm trying to think of when I last was waiting for the debut album of a young band that had brought out a string of wonderful singles, and it was actually as good as I'd hoped. Kenickie maybe? And that's going back a bit. Any of you?
To be honest, In Our Space Hero Suits is not as good as I'd hoped. The older material is still brilliant, but if you already have the Those Dancing Days EP and the two recent singles 'Run Run' and 'Home Sweet Home', then you have all the best of it. The half-dozen or so new tracks come across mostly as somewhat hasty filler; not bad, just not as exciting. If on the other hand you don't have the earlier releases, or if like me you downladed them when they were free and now want to give something back to the band, then you could do worse than get the album: it has almost all the good stuff in one place.
I'm trying to think of when I last was waiting for the debut album of a young band that had brought out a string of wonderful singles, and it was actually as good as I'd hoped. Kenickie maybe? And that's going back a bit. Any of you?
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I'm currently looking forward to the debut album from Brighton band Shrag, who are brilliant. They've only released one EP in two years, the lazy sods, but I gather there'll be advance copies at their gig next week.
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Sadly I don't think I can justify going down to the TDD gig on Tuesday, it's thirty-odd quid for the train alone :-(
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We must catch up soon, now I'm back in UK!
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