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THE FRAY - How To Save A Life
| RollingStone |
| The debut from this Denver quartet blends piano-based Brit-pop swooning and scruffy alt-rock melancholia, as if that Keane guy were backed by the Counting Crows. Achy ballads such as "Fall Away" are too long on airbrushed prettiness, but between the band's sculpted guitars and meatier cuts such as the lead single, "Over My Head (Cable Car)," How to Save a Life offers more elegantly wasted twentysomething angst than the average O.C. soundtrack....full text |
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| PasteMagazine |
| Filled mostly with slowish ballads about relationships failed, imagined and anticipated, How To Save A Life churns out one accessible tune after another, haunting you with Isaac Slade’s Chris Martin/Jon Foreman-esque voice. It’s the familiarity that brings you back to it—listening over and over again, hoping you can pinpoint the musical antecedent. But instead, you end up realizing you’ve just heard the track enough times that it finally sounds like itself....full text |
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| Virgin |
| Nature hates a vacuum nearly as much as the music industry, particularly when there's money to be made. So in the absence of any Keane or Snow Patrol action in the UK during early 2007, Sony are stuffing the gaping conservative-indie hole with some equally tedious US counterparts....full text |
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