MUSIC RECORD REVIEWS
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Frag: 83:31am“ ONE DOVE love’. State-of-the-art is the camber c t' - of the music, so we’re reminded, but first?” "but mm "m Morning Oove White (Boys Own) melhe “"0 admins "001 this Peet' I like everything this It’s admirable that, despite a sporadic metith angle the Veteeielletl- 70' week. cont.“ mm, for release schedule, One Oove have everv eurole end hill) 0" ‘Sti‘eee’ example. ‘Evangeline’ managed to capture the national them’e e recognisable "emetth (Fontana) has gentle conscience enough to lodge lasting retrain er hllret 0t twanov setter- soars, emotional sores. images, sounds and words in the ‘Breakdown’ sports a melody so
and Liz Fraser floating collective cerebellum. So they find immediate it belongs in a Take That sedate” “he ihte'he'h'y themselves about to release their confection. not a dirobbino.
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it Again Sam is where Ocean Oolour Scene, or make up your ceases to sound like the wildly "09“? Currently tes'ee- , own. The fact that it was Elvis’s gran’s original concept someone should have The'.’ Uptown '"V's'ble name is neither here nor there. had long ago, and just be simple
‘5 Skmery cw'cabml Purity and sexuality are the main really. And that’s where the art lies. strangeness. No
mminmive country recurring motifs, coupled on the (Fiona Shepherd)
delicacy this time. Which is nearly a shame. Luckily the cinematic 60s swing of the single more than compensates. So does the deep-down-the-well i echoey twang of '
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1 wonderful noise indeed, all stuttering gestures and James benefit from the
} polyrhythms, chiming African guitars space. Tim Booth can still sound too
I v t' o o o u v v chorus halfway through. Truly James Ea V i r N I _ were touching God again.
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this week’s Lounge Crooner King. ‘City
Sickness' (This Way Up) T i line in epic whinges. emphasis on the intimate rather than is the mtisie the rei'ehhht % Which made Sometimes such a bolt the panoramic. With Out To Get You Pm" Qu'm‘ W9“ km“ 5 from the blue. That apocalyptic and Knuckle Too Far, they’ve come up 0‘" "odbome’l‘fi‘e hag i narrative bouncing off of a lagged wall with two top five-star ballads of 33:: afigflhfl? a" f of guitars wandered into genius bedroom paranoia that are quietly production behind him. ! territory with the key change in the devastating. Sound. (Tom Lappin)
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Orchestra Providing V'” P" 5"” 3°" (Pai'oph‘m) eminence. When pop is this operatic, '
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Orchestral arrangements from Anne Oudley add warmth and exotica where the crushing swoop and cruise oi the
Truly marvellous. So is That packaging, a revolutionary bright 3'0"“ how’s 'Dtsteht ,orange plastic Oil case with pimples,
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mystery track buried deep , create cold artifice. But then, of in the Beatles ‘Blue‘ CD. “'94” that n 3 In" a “3"” "3" mm course, artifice is what it’s all about,
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Who else but the shebang, an abject lesson in how to vocals mast When no sum 1 “8| (o .9 rogueish TOOIIflO Fanclub ' brazenly the headlines and a" my clothes 0" and I ‘ e a could getaway with i the product, but never be accused of dancing m "I, ma M spun . on "m - -
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32 The List 24 September—7 October l993