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...according to our Brian on Thu 27 May, 2010.
Righto, last time I reviewed these it was their debut single and I was riding the crest of an angry wave, like Captain Furious & his magic Smash-it-up band were staying in my head, getting pissed, chucking wardrobes out of windows and urinating on fake cheeseplants. They got taken away by the cerebral police after a few hours of such escapades but so did the Cardiff lassie & her twee chums for causing my anger & disdain to be so aggravated beyond belief. Now the fuckers are back in my fat face, being sugary & retro-insipid all over the place with a bastard full album packed with these....these head-bobbingly perky 60's motown audio 'love-letters'. Comparisons to the most commercial aspects of the Pipettes/B&S/Camera Obscura axis are probably quite apt but on the whole this album, unfortunately, just thoroughly pisses me off. No wreckage occurring in my head today, mind - just the smoky billowings of an aged bonfire's last gasp & one small stale cat shit. So Cardiff lassie goes free, today at least
After the singles "Let It Slip" and "All I Wanna Do", various BBC sessions, and appearing on Rough Trade's best of the year compilation, Cardiff band THE SCHOOL release their debut album "Loveless Unbeliever". This may be the album that fans of bands like Camera Obscura, The Pipettes and Belle & Sebastian have waited so impatiently for. Produced by Ian Catt (Saint Etienne, Trembling Blue Stars, The Field Mice) THE SCHOOL's songs, with their hummable choruses, their doo-doo-wops and their catchy arrangements, show the same sense of melody as the 60s girl-group greats, the youthful irreverence that the Grease soundtrack boasted, the imaginative arrangements of greats like Phil Spector or Jack Nitzsche, all updated with an impressive pop vision, with that elegance so suited to the best pop. Huge, starting right now.
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