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Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
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| Musicomh |
| It's difficult second album time for the lads from Staines and the media attention Hard-Fi have received ahead of the release of the follow up to 2005's smash hit debut album Stars Of CCTV has been dominated by their "No Cover Art" artwork concept. So while other people debate the packaging, let's focus on the content....full text |
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| Guardian |
| It must have seemed like a great idea at the time. The cover of Hard-Fi's follow-up to their 1.2m-selling debut Stars of CCTV features only the album's title and a message in block capitals: NO COVER ART. Frontman Richard Archer bullishly suggested the band were making a serious point, "killing off the record sleeve" in protest at the declining significance of album covers in the digital download era. But it wasn't long before mocking voices were heard....full text |
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| Timesonline |
| Poor old Hard-Fi. Even after a multi-platinum debut album they aren’t the best-known cultural phenomenon to emerge from Staines – not while the memory of Ali G lingers on. Perhaps that’s why Richard Archer and his crew have chosen to embrace their background rather than deny it. From the title to the artless sleeve design to the self-aggrandising lead-off single Suburban Knights, they romanticise their own perfectly mundane origins. Archer has even claimed that the peripheral zones are a production line for significant ideas....full text |
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| Digitalspy |
| Having mixed up Hard Fi and Hot Chip quite spectacularly at this year's Glastonbury festival (I hadn't listened to either in a long while, was pretty wiped out and went off to see the pretty disappointing latter while the former played a storming comeback set far, far away from where I was!), it's nothing less than a pleasure to hear the latest offerings from Hard Fi with new album Once Upon A Time In The West....full text |
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