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Nose plugs and a pair of Marigolds were required to sift through this week's singles bag. such was its predominantly stinky content. The main offender being Shop Boyz' gang banging rotter 'Party Like a Rockstar' (Universal)
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resembles Coldplay given the occasional squidgy electro drumbeat.
Also playing the ‘Tonight Matthew. I'm going to be . . .' game this week are Pigeon Detectives. whose track ‘Take Her Back'
dodgy Kaiser Chiefs impersonation. Stirling scamps Jack Butler‘s ‘Boy vs Beast'
is a turn up for the books at least. as is 'Making Me Money' (Fiction) 000
by Jacknlfe Lee. the former being a taut. dancey post-punk effort with traces of Modest Mouse all over it; the latter a sleazy electro- blues effort with traces of last night's carry out
On to the strangely animal themed finale. featuring (rather appropriately) Animal Collective with ‘Peacebone' (Domino) oooo — a deviant beast of a tune, like a screaming child and a broken laptop trapped in the belly of a whale. It could have scooped Single of the Week. had all girl Canadian outfit Pony Up not galloped (sorry) off with the gong. for the brilliantly titled ‘The Truth About Cats and Dogs (is That They Die)’ (Laughing Outlaw) 0000 It's a gorgeous indie-pop disco belter. so catchy that this reviewer just can't help but hum along. even as he clutches his own feline chum to his bosom. crying. (Malcolm Jack)
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their pockets. Successfully bedded in now. the Glasgow guartet return wrth another hair brained hair-raiser — one that should rightly propel them to heights merited.
Orange Juice remain a bean influence — ()(1l’llCLllé1ll\ on Sam 'Mother' Smith's knomng croon and wnst-heaw guitar work. There's an unrelentineg groom thrust this time round. though. one that incorporates (soothing from retro rockabilly All ln the Mindl to bug- eyed electio funk (Watch the Lines“. lt's the sort 0‘ record "are 9.676. lelic‘CS .‘z't‘ intenteo :0.
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The Introduction to the cinematic 'Ciarp 532' is really quite brilliant. recalling the hopelessness of a post rock 'House of the Rising Sun' With the rest of the song building into a dark country foot stornper'. Certain points trail off into what harsher listeners would deem self—indu|gence. but on songs like 'Breakouf' they brew a powerful moonshine mix of pop sensibilities and swuling psychedelic guitars. (Miles Johnson)
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