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Favourite Albums of 2005 (60 items)
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Description: Brighton's British Sea Power are a band that perhaps shouldn't exist in the 21st Century, but a listen to their fine second album Open Season ought to be enough to convince you that it's a good thing they do. BSP are antiquated in sound as in style - although their music doesn't quite hail back quite as far as those WWI-style military jackets might suggest, stabilizing round about the mid-'80s in empathy with post-punk-touchstones Echo and the Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes. It's a keen sense of the theatrical and the absurd, however, that ensures tracks like "It Ended On An Oily Stage" and "To Get To Sleep&qu ... (more)
Manufacturer: Rough Trade
Release date: 4 April 2005
EAN: 5050159820023
Tags: English (3), 2005 (3), Indie (2), Indie Rock (2), Album (2), Bought 2006 (2), Rough Trade (2), Digipak (1)
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