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| Rollingstones |
 Like fellow mod rockers the Cribs and the Enemy, this London quartet craft airtight tunes filled with high-speed guitar interplay, soccer-stadium choruses and prosaic stories about lager-hugging lads. On their careening second album, the Rifles prove that they're a band to watch, especially on the title track — a finely realized portrait of working-class boredom — and the frenetic "Science in Violence." It helps that they have more breadth than the average Paul Weller-loving Brit rocker: On softer cuts like "Romeo and Julie," the band makes chiming, strummy guitar pop that will earn the love of any sentimental Smiths fan....full text |
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| Guardian |
| the Rifles. From east London and endorsed by Paul Weller, they have acquired enough of a following to be able to sell out Brixton Academy, so they're not about to start adding disco synths to the thumping guitar rock that has got them this far. Presumably, Weller's enthusiasm for the band derives from the fact that when he was Jamming he specialised in the same argumentative three-minute bursts. He'll get an avuncular glow from the title track, with its melodic similarity to That's Entertainment and excoriation of suburban life ("Stand back in the shadows and be a right hand man/ Buy a brand-new semi next door to the Taliban"). This album is full of that kind of thing: young lovers named Romeo and Julie, bracing shout-outs to tarnished heroes and all the rest. Not unappealing, but not very novel....full text |
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| Sundaymercury |
| wTHE Chingford crew have the Paul Weller seal of approval – he even jammed with them at a gig – and they’re being touted as the natural successors to The Jam with their tightly clipped pop and bittersweet street lyrics. Their much delayed sophomore set finds them on form with short, sharp sweet Weller-esque songs such as Silence In Violence and Romeo And Julie. During Toerag you’ll catch yourself singing sotto voce “and the public gets what the public wants”. Don’t write them off as copyists, though. The title track gives The Killers a run for their money. PC...full text |
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