The Music - The Music
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The Music - The MusicThe latest buzz band to emerge from the Old Sod, this Leeds quartet with the stunningly pretentious name owes a stadium-size debt to Oasis for the Liam Gallagher-esque vocals of Robert Harvey. Already favorites of Brit rock festivals and flavor-of-the-month weeklies like NME, the young shavers summon up roaring, helter-skelter psychedelia on tracks like “The Dance” and “Take the Long Road and Walk It.” But, apart from the moody “Turn Out the Light,” it’s all played at boringly repetitive breakneck speed.



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