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The Subways - All Or Nothing
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| If you’re tired of your favourite bands bemoaning the ‘difficult second album’ on the eve of phoning in substandard sophomore efforts, spare a thought for The Subways. Enduring Billy Lunn’s potentially voicebox-curtailing surgery, then the in-studio break-up of the guitarist and his bass-playing childhood sweetheart Charlotte Cooper, the trio’s difficulties cut deeper than the drummer getting into jazz or the singer preferring multipacks of Monster Munch to writing good tunes. It’s astonishing to consider then that, with their second record, the Welwyn Garden City band have somehow made the best British rock album of the year so far....full text |
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To say that The Subways' second album has had a difficult gestation period would be understating it somewhat. Three years in the making, the recording was interrupted when lead singer Billy Lunn was forced to undergo surgery for nodes on his vocal chords - potentially meaning he may never speak again, never mind sing. Just as Lunn was recovering from the successful surgery, he then split up with fiancee Charlotte Cooper - the bassist in the band whose chemistry with Lunn makes them such an enthralling live prospect. Lesser bands may have thrown in the towel, but thankfully All Or Nothing is the sound of a reborn group - with Charlotte still intact - and drawing on those experiences to make a terrific album....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| By all rights, the Subways should be a guilty pleasure. There they are, cutely energetic Brits from the Home Counties who sound like Californian rock-radio mainstays, laying down power chords like railroad ties and driving home the hooks like spikes. They rock undeniably out, without a hint of either hipster pretense or mainstream recumbence, and with plenty of hopping. They are best known in America for selling teen-soap tie-in soundtracks with a gloriously dumb rocker demanding that you “be my little rock and roll queen”. By any reasonable measure, they should simply be consumed and forgotten, as that dead poet suggested, to be inevitably replaced by the new....full text |
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