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 When Arctic Monkeys first proved that histrionic guitars could indeed look good on the dancefloor, lots of people thought that Manc alchemists The Longcut had identified a mutant strain that could save clubland. It didn’t happen, but the three-piece’s deviant house remains a potent concoction. Fans of their debut ‘A Call And Response’ will find more of the same, but more so; witness how ‘Evil Dance’ operates the hips with its nefarious bass while moving the hands up to the air with piano flourishes that could sit on something by Deep Dish. Elsewhere, ‘Out At The Roots’ brings out the krautrock bile, while the title track shows they can do tender too. Marvellous, frankly....full text |
| Bbc |
| Everything, according to Lauryn Hill among others, is everything. That's a mantra that Manchester-based trio The Longcut seem to abide by, worrying not about long-player manners by having a noisy crack at every idea they can rush into their heads. Open Hearts is only the band's second album since 2006's well-received, but poor selling debut A Call and Response. Since then they've parted company with former label, Alan Wills' Liverpool-based Deltasonic, and teamed up with Manchester imprint Melodic as well as recording their second effort with old pal David Jones from Nine Black Alps helming the production. Jones has done a fair old job, as Open Hearts bounces between genres like a gnat in the Later... studios. There's baggy dance on Repeated, indie-rock that nods to fellow Mancs The Courteeners on the shoegazey Tell You So, and there's Evil Dance which, with its spacey bassline and clapping intro, is a dead ringer for the stadium filling astro-rock of Muse's Time Is Running Out. Not two deliberate influences, one imagines....full text |
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| Open Hearts is de tweede langspeler van The Longcut. Ondanks zeer geslaagde vroege ep's maakte top-debuutplaat A Call and Response weinig golfslag hier ten lande. ...full text |
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