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The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
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| They like to take their time, the Zutons. Circa 2002's debut single 'Devil's Deal', they seemed like another bunch of 'cosmic Scousers', a rollicking pub band with Sixties dust in their amps, pitched somewhere between the La's and the Coral. Then, on first album Who Killed... the Zutons? (2004), their voodoo-blues wit and imagination came to the fore. There weren't many bands who could reimagine Merseybeat as swampy-bayou-beat....full text |
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| Yahoo |
| The Zutons very nearly side-stepped the inevitable Coral vs Zutons Scouse label mates comparisons in 2003 when they chose not to immediately follow-up their fairly lacklustre "Creepin' & A Crawlin'" single with a debut album. Instead, they took a year off to hone their craft on the road, so that when "Who Killed...The Zutons" appeared the following year some where heard to whisper that they might have been - careful now - better than The Coral....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Cosmic Scousers the Zutons decamped to LA to record their third album, and it shows. Buffed to a hard shine by Johnny Cash/Black Crowes producer George Drakoulis, You Can Do Anything adds a layer of gritty blues to their skew-whiff psychedelia. Opener Harder and Harder could be Primal Scream in their Stones-aping, mid-90s incarnation, while What's Your Problem recalls grunt-rockers Reef....full text |
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