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| Sputnikmusic |
 I have a confession to make; My name is Davey and I am a fence-sitter. I have been known to respond with a casual “it’s ok” when someone says that I will either love something or hate it. If ever there was a love or hate proposition in the music industry however, it concerns a former member of Welsh quartet The Automatic. Once described by NME as “a deranged midget with borderline Tourettes”, Alex Pennie very much stood out on the band’s debut LP ‘Not Accepted Anywhere’. Whether he was bouncing around stage with his keyboard or yelping at every opportunity he had, it was fair to state that you could not ignore Pennie… You either loved him or hated him. Obviously, his colleagues chose the latter as he was nowhere to be seen come follow-up ‘This Is A Fix’.
Heading away from the dancey brand of post-hardcore which filled their debut, ‘This Is A Fix’ was a solid - but unsensational - straight up rocker. Unfortunately, the band’s label were unhappy with the Pennie-less results and failed to promote the album, resulting in it swiftly fading from memory. Setting up their own label (Armored Records) for creative control purposes, The Automatic return with their third LP ‘Tear The Signs Down’. Unfortunately, they may have been better off leaving the control aspect to others, since it is anything but creative. In fact, this may be the most forgettable album of the past year… Entire songs seem to be magically wiped from memory before the next track has even started!...full text |
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| Theskinny |
| What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster, is it a monster? No, it's only the return of the rather pointless Welsh band behind one of the most annoyingly inescapable songs of 2006. Riding in on the piss-stained coattails of the Kaiser Chiefs and their student disco kin, The Automatic were a homogenized, NME-crafted non-band from their inception. But now, freshly dropped by their label, can they kick off the commercial shackles and pull off a creative volte-face? In a word, no. Tear the Signs Down, which follows 2008's This is a Fix (who knew?), is neutered punk, lobotomized indie, whitewashed rock. Tracks like upcoming single Run and Hide still plough relentlessly through the same old power chords and adolescent riffage, and that's one of the better cuts. It's difficult to imagine even their core audience (the Hollyoaks demographic) getting excited about this confused, weak album, and the quicker this monster is subdued the better. [Nick Mitchell]...full text |
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| Femalefirst |
It’s hard to believe it’s almost five years since The Automatic signed their first record deal and began their meteoric rise from a local band in the small Welsh village of Cowbridge to topping the charts, touring the world and having their pictures all over magazines covers everywhere.
Now in 2010, the band prepare to release their third album “Tear The Signs Down” which musically and lyrically marks another massive leap away from those small town roots and reflects the experiences of a band who are in control of not only their music but also, now everything else as well. As the title suggests, they are following their own path regardless of anything or anyone....full text |
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