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Mr Understanding, by Pete & The Pirates (7" on Stolen)

Cover art for Mr Understanding by Pete & The Pirates Description: 7" on Stolen
 
Format: 7"
Label: Stolen
Price: £2.99
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Rating: unmoved This record left our BRIAN D feeling unmoved.

Pete and The Pirates now on Stolen with a 7"/CDs called 'Mr. Understanding'. This is freewheeling guitar pop that's ridiculously catchy but in my mind playing it fairly safe. I can imagine them nodding like David Gray or early Beatles during the chorus. Loads of ad-libbing in the backing vocals, a tune designed for the radio. Seriously well studied modern guitar pop with all the harmonious bits in the right places but apart from being able to spring top pop anthems out of a hat, i can't see a great deal of innovation troubling these guys. 10/10 for accessibility & catchiness but 3/10 for ideas. Better than many, however, & they're definitely barking up the same tree as Kaiser Chiefs & Pigeon Defectives.

What the label says:

Something happened to Pete and the Pirates during the course of 2007. Over the course of playing all of this summer’s major festivals they went from being an occasionally great live band, to a consistently brilliant one.
Their debut LP - Little Death - is further proof of a band, who given the time and space afforded to them by a label that treats them as artists with longevity, have crafted a collection of timeless, near perfect pop songs.
Following on from the breakthrough success of ltd singles ‘Come on Feet’ and ‘Knots’ (both big favourites with Lamacq and Zane at Radio 1, plus Jonathan Ross on Radio 2), the band’s first full album is giddy rush of spiky guitar pop and unabashed romanticism.
Further proof of how Pirates operate differently from other bands is found with brand new single, ‘Mr Understanding’. A couple of weeks before their album was meant to be manufactured, lead guitarist David Thorpe penned the song. The rest of the band thought it was so good they decided it should go on the album. Which in turn, was something their label Stolen Recordings were more than happy to do. Simple really.

 

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