Demob Happy

FIRST PUBLISHED AT THE LINE OF BEST FIT
Keep this in mind for your Christmas stockings …
8/10
When it was released earlier this year I resisted ‘Sunday At Devil Dirt’, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan’s well-received, rather tongue-in-cheek take on Americana, their second full-length collaboration. It seemed to me too studied, too contrived somehow, a feeling heightened [...]

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‘Ease Your Feet In The Sea’
8/10
On first inspection the Amazon.co.uk review’s favourable comparison to the Smiths and the Velvet Underground seems a little generous. And while the lyrical concerns bear resemblance to those of Morrissey and Stuart Murdoch’s vocals make for a less smokey Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian don’t quite reach that songwriting bracket. [...]

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