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The Long Blondes - Couples
| Musicomh | You could be forgiven for getting a little bored with The Long Blondes after they toured their successful debut album Someone To Drive You Home to death. But if anything is going to get devoted fans and general indie music-aficionados alike reinvigorated about the Sheffield fivesome it is this stunning follow-up.
Couples kicks off with futuristic, electronic opener Century - a lyrical and musical departure for the band - as sultry, stripped down disco and falsetto vocals evoking Grace Jones, His 'n' Hers-era Pulp and Blondie plunder history and politics in a rather powerful take on the Cold War....full text |
| | Yahoo | | It's depressing that The Long Blondes' 2006 debut album wasn't a hit, but perhaps not unfathomable. Sure, "Someone To Drive You Home" was freighted with glamour, hooks and searing insights, but it was also shot through with a superior attitude off-putting to some punters. Acknowledging this, one of the songs on this follow-up is titled "Too Clever By Half". Yet ""Couples"" is an album that seeks to defy expectations. Far from remaking their debut and hoping people go for it this time, The Long Blondes have comprehensively overhauled their sound....full text |
| | Guardian | | The down-to-earth glamour, wiry guitars and starry-eyed charm of the Long Blondes' 2006 debut turned the so-called "best unsigned band in Britain", into indie's most interesting outsiders. Its follow-up smoothes out the wrinkles in their rudimentary sound, while confidently moving into a new universe of cool synths, clean melodies and infectious choruses. Century shares more with the cinematic perfection of Kylie Minogue's Confide in Me than the kitchen-sink dramas of Pulp, but the Long Blondes keep their feet on the ground....full text |
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