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MACCABEES - Colour It In
| Drowned in sound |
| It’s been coming for a while, you feel. Ever since The Maccabees released debut single ‘X-Ray’ into the dark days of November 2005, they’ve been marked by many as a band to watch; understandable, given the quality of their entrance music. Now near enough 18 months have passed, the debut album’s done, and their songs are more likely to find themselves filling the Astoria than throatboy Orlando Weeks’ Clapham bedroom....full text |
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| MusicOMH.com |
| You'd be forgiven for feeling a slight sense of deja vu when you first encounter the Maccabees. After all, they write jerky, nervy little guitar songs, they're named after a Jewish revolutionary movement and two of them are even called Felix and Orlando for goodness sake. Do we really need another clever-clever art-rock band?...full text |
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| Guardian |
| With names like Felix, Orlando, Rupert and Hugo, the Maccabees had no choice but to plump for the artier end of the guitar-rock spectrum. Luckily, it suits them. There's snap and crackle in their off-beat melodies, and real heat in Orlando Weeks' staccato vocal lines. Being part of the groovy London milieu that yielded Lily Allen seems to have left no obvious marks - if anything, they're more indebted to jittery northerners like Maxïmo Park and Futureheads....full text |
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