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The digital home of music journalist Nicholas Jennings, author of Lightfoot, the bestselling biography of Gordon Lightfoot. Includes a searchable database of current and archived work, including thousands of record reviews and feature articles.
The Music - The Music
The 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.