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simon silverdollar
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Raw Patrick said:The NME is now classed as a 'mens lifestyle' mag rather'n a music one in any business planning by it's publishers which is a pretty clear idea what is going on with it.
"But yeah, the long blondes do seem to be harking back to a much more recent time- the sound of the mid to late 90s for teenagers who weren't into jungle and weren't into Oasis (i was one of these teenagers, incidentally)."--I don't get this from their music at all, sure it involves a recombination of the past but so does the Nathan Fake mentioned above and no-one is on his case (I don't think.) I can hear pretty clear gestures towards to girl groups/Pulp/scratchy post-punk and 60s garage (and certainly that stuff is waht they DJed when I saw 'em do so.) I wish I wasn't their only defender.
as i said, my problem with the long blondes isn't that they are a recombination of the past, but rather that i just don't think they write good songs.
I don't hear girl-group or scratchy post-punk influences in their music- the absence of the latter (which is now such a blanket influence in indie) was what made them stand out to me and got me interested at first.
i've only heard 5 tracks by them, and haven't seen them live, so i'm quite willing to revise my opinions- and yr comparison in 2003 piece to ESG suggests to me that i might end up doing just that. but, at the moment, i'm really not impressed by them.
i haven't heard the nathan fake album but i do quite like his two big neo prog-house tracks of last year or the year before, 'dinamo' and 'the sky was pink'. i heard his album is much more home-listening focussed, rather than full-on rave action. is that right?
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