Turin Brakes - Dark On Fire reviews
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| Guardian |
What is most striking about this duo's fourth album is that Starsailor's James Walsh appears to have migrated to their ranks - unless the Walsh-like sobbing and gesticulating is just the Brakes' Olly Knights pulling out the emotional stops. Assuming it is, he has come on a bit since his group cornered the market in polite melancholia. He's feeling it in a big way now, digging deep into every emo-folk cranny in an effort to get it all out. Guitarist partner Gale Paridjanian and backing band have upped their game accordingly, and the sound isn't far short of what you might call "epic". Big suits them. The first single, Stalker, roils and rips away at its strummy folk packaging, and the irresistible raucousness of Real Life is almost punk. The steroids seem to be working, and what a difference it makes....full text |
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| Yahoo |
| Fortune has not favoured musicians who were once part of what everyone for about ten minutes during 2000 labelled the 'New Acoustic Movement'. Since The Strokes and their skinny-tied punk revivalist chums killed it stone dead, each key exponent of the genre has either sunk back into their turtle-necks (I Am Kloot, Kings Of Convenience) or moved across the pond and gone - ooh the Judases! - electric, with underwhelming results (Starsailor, Tom McCrae)....full text |
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