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With Christmas round the corner, clichéd stories about broken relationships seem to be everywhere, consumed as strange comfort sources for lovers of unadventurous musical experiences. The latest of them is perpetrated by another of the recent World Music Awards winners: The Script, celebrating the gong as best Selling Irish act with a third slice of polished boredom taken from the trio's eponymous debut. "Breakeven" is a far more ordinary affair than their former, breakthrough singles; an adult ballad that confirms the band as the not-too distant cousins of OneRepublic and other chart-teasing bands, halfway between blue-eyed soul and old-fashioned AOR.
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