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Regrouped, refreshed, and financially on the mend thanks to the benevolent wallets of fans instead of A&M, Dodgy let loose the sound Real Estate, their fifth album of British Invasion-styled good spirit, in the middle of a British summer stocked with perpetually dour singer/songwriters and an odd journalistic obsession with New York City's the Strokes. But if the band had troubles landing a deal after the trappings of Brit-pop lashed back, a situation worsened by a premature and misleading greatest hits album, Ace A's & Killer B's, and the unfortunate departure of longtime lead singer Nigel Clarke, they barely let you know. There is a crudely unfastened self-justification about songs like "Clean" and "Featherweight & Monkeyface." With David Bassey's new vocals, the band has grown around the petulant working-class rasp of Kelly Jones or a young Rod Stewart, diverging from the bright pop froth of its past, and for the first time the band sounds blurred around the edges as if intoxicated on their own indolent personalities. Alternately, "Shouldn't Wear Shorts" is unplugged Black Grape in the most terrible way but, like Shed Seven's Truth Be Told or Echobelly's People Are Expensive, Real Estate is the consequence of subverting dwindling crowds and a dismissive press for the good of those charitable few who chose to see how it all turned out. ~ Dean Carlson, All Music Guide
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Love On The Line Crazy P |
| Despite being the passion of bearded, crate digging record geeks and bit-part 'Simpsons' characters alike, Disco has somehow risen to be become the coolest sound in club land in the past three years. Whether it's the dreamy Balearic works of Scandinavians Lindstrom and Todd Terje, The New York Punk Funk of LCD Soundsytem and Hercules & Love Affair or the rehashing of long forgotten Boogie gems via the currently burgeoning disco re-edits scene, the influence of Disco is once again making itself felt. One group that's been providing Disco beats before they were the toast of Hoxton is Nottingham based Crazy P who have been revisiting the 70's sounds of Philadelphia and NYC since 1996. Now with their latest single 'Love On The Line' Crazy P look to build on the success of their previous work which earned them a seemingly permanent slot on Pete Tong’s show and a major following in Australia – despite being largely overlooked on home turf. 'Love On The Line's' musical features could have been prised wholesale from any New York club circa 1979. Bubbling live bass, D-Train-esque keyboard stabs, lush sweeping strings and jangling Nile Rodgers guitar are all staples but it is the modern electronic twists that Crazy P apply that stop this becoming simply a pastiche. Though perhaps not quite up there with their very best work, 'Love On The Line' still does enough to show that Crazy P should be among the main disco contenders, and certainly a firm fixture on the festival circuit for 2009. | |
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