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Album review
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Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
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- Format: Album
- Label: Rough Trade
- Reviewed by John Lewis
- Posted: Tue May 30 2006
You could see this rather fine LP as a sonic voyage through every stage of Green Gartside’s 30-year career: dipping into lo-fi garage rock (‘Cooking’, ‘Dr Abernathy’), elegant guitar pop (‘Mrs Hughes’, ‘Road To No Regret’, ‘Robin Hood’), digital funk (‘Ellth Nuts’) and half a dozen lush synth ballads. The latter get a little sickly, if we’re honest, but the songwriting remains impeccably high, laden with smart pop hooks and couched in delicious Brian Wilson-style baroque harmonies. His best since ‘Songs To Remember’, at least.
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5 comments
It was well worth the wait... Seems that his voice will never age. Like Brian Wilson's on long-awaited Smile ! I think "Road to no regret" is a delight.
agree on boom boom bap. sublime classic and from his own bedrrom too! glad your back GG
As with any album I expected a duff track or two but no, I was in heaven all the way to the last sublime note.
Definitely his best work. "The Boom Boom Bap" is, for me, the single of the year and the whole album can be summed up in one word .... sublime
brilliant record!