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Three blokes, like a drink--you know right where you're going with Bristol's Crashland, and it's a route that takes you past all the familiar old sights. Glued recalls the three-chord punk rattle of the Buzzcocks, the spunky pop anthems of early Supergrass and the raucous stagger of fondly remembered Welsh pub-rockers 60ft Dolls--but while it's an album that's as musically accomplished as reasonably expected from a debut, there is precious little substance here to elevate Glued beyond the crop of Britpop also-rans. Sure, "Modern Animal" and "New Perfume" are as rough and ready as a council estate kick-about,
Three blokes, like a drink--you know right where you're going with Bristol's Crashland, and it's a route that takes you past all the familiar old sights. Glued recalls the three-chord punk rattle of the Buzzcocks, the spunky pop anthems of early Supergrass and the raucous stagger of fondly remembered Welsh pub-rockers 60ft Dolls--but while it's an album that's as musically accomplished as reasonably expected from a debut, there is precious little substance here to elevate Glued beyond the crop of Britpop also-rans. Sure, "Modern Animal" and "New Perfume" are as rough and ready as a council estate kick-about, and the closing "We're On Fire" offers a fine, sentimental Dylan-esque closer, but when you are waiting for Crashland to reveal a hitherto unseen dimension--sensitivity, eloquence, sense of humour--the best that frontman Alex Troupe can offer is drivelsome sub-Gallagher spot-the-next-rhyme games: "It was never my attention/But now you come to mention/I adore you/If I ignore you/ You know I'd do anything for you". Time may refine and reshape their dull, blunt edge, but too often, Glued finds Crashland sitting in the gutter looking down at the gutter. --Louis Pattison
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Manufacturer: Independiente
Release date: 16 October 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099749999220 UPC: 5099749999220
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