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Radio 4 - Stealing of a Nation

 
 
iconoplast
15:24 / 09.09.04
Is anyone listening to them?

The new album came out a few days ago and it's interesting: I hate the title track, and the single they played on Conan O'Brian is a horrible, horrible Strokes ripoff. The rest of the album, though, is great. Dancey and shallow and brilliant.

Deal is, between this album and the one before, they added a second percussionist (whose talents include beaning audience members in the head with tambourines) - they released the single Dance to the Underground with the line-up on this album, and the new sound is so very very much better than the old one.
 
 
rizla mission
16:42 / 09.09.04
Thought they were really rad live, kinda like PiL if they weren't so grumpy - they had that killer Metal Box bass/guitar dynamic DOWN.

Album was kind of a let down though. A few good tunes, but just sounded so.. uninspiring. Run of the mill, one might say. Dull even. This is the kind of music that should get played on the radio and totally blow people's minds, but Radio 4's records sound like they'd get played on the radio and everybody would just shrug, y'know what I mean? They're lacking the energy and the power and the noise.
 
  
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