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GoodBooks - Control
| Musicomh | They're the latest 'Best New Band In Britain'. Are Goodbooks being damned with faint praise?
Music moves in swings and cycles. It's no great secret: in guitar-based pop you can easily plot the oscillation of popular taste from the peaks of punky energy to the troughs of fey wordiness and back again without much effort, each transition somehow robbing us of our desire to escape the fate that history has in store for us....full text |
| | Stylusmagazine | | Whoever would have thought that A Weekend in the City would have such influence? “Not many people bought that record, but everyone who did formed a band,” they’ll say, and the band all four of them formed was called Goodbooks. Well, Goodbooks have been around since 2005, so perhaps they’ve actually just been stalking Kele Okereke through the same London streets, and reaching similar conclusions. Except, while Bloc Party’s reputation can still be kept afloat by the success of their debut, Goodbooks will have to vastly improve on Control if they are to be known as anything other than an approximation of another average British indie band....full text |
| | Timesonline | | Nothing sinks the spirits like yet another slab of generic indie from yet another band of pointlessly confident ex-public schoolboys, and the debut from the relentlessly average GoodBooks is no exception. Their single Passchendaele is at least unusual, and Max Cooke’s whine, somewhere between Robert Smith and that lad in Busted, is inoffensive. But whether the world needs an uninspired Bloc Party is a moot point....full text |
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