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Lovejunk - The Refugees
Newest Review: ... become a fan. A punk past, an ear for great melody and hook line and the ability to create great songs from a melting pot of ... more  ... influences is the path that has lead ultimately to this album.
The opening salvo comes in the form of "Guillotine Gene", a song that not only distils and delivers everything I have waffled on about in the opening paragraph, but one that also suggests an English hybrid of Mike Scott and Bruce Springsteen, and that can't be a bad thing. Whilst the closing chords of that song are still ringing in your ears Kat Evans infectious violin hook is whisking us headlong and relentlessly into "The Girl with t...more |
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Lovejunk - The Refugees: Between pop and a hard place (689 words)
by - written on 29/01/07 (Very useful, 131 readings)
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The genres of pop and rock have always seemed worlds apart to many, fans and writers alike. Both are awash with clichés and self imposed boundaries. The immediacy and dance beat jaunt of modern pop seems alien to the purveyors of the seemingly more serious rock product, and vice versa. However there have been some successful attempts over the years to combine the two, one that stands out for me is Liverpool's finest, namely the Icicle Works a band able to mix and miss-match the two to wonderful affect. The appeal of the Refugees album, "Love Junk," seems also to lie in this marriage of pop sensibilities and rock attitude as well as calling on a wide range of ... Read the complete review
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