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As I was saying, some of the production is really lush and I'd probably give 'Disciples..' an 8 or 9. But this isn't quite as good, whilst bringing very little new to the table.

Surely then it would be difficult not to see the wisdom.

Where bother Doran goes, the rest follow.

my favorite album of the year so far. It's quite, quite, beautiful.

Still...not too shabby.

Seem to recall G-dob gave them 10/10 for their first ep. Deservedly so I reckon.

barely anything on this would make it onto A Certain Trigger. Stylistically it's a return but it's simply not as good.

Calm is pretty ace. It should have been the starting point.

You make some good points, and for me too this is probably my least favorite SFA album for exactly your reasons. But I've lived with it for about a month now and it definitely gets better.

As I said, people who love those epic slow burners and melody-soaked moments may be disappointed here.

I was arguing these very same ideas with an Artist manager just recently - the idea of nurturing young bands on a shoe-string budget, holding back marketing costs, allowing growth, and he flat-out quashed the idea of not taking as large an advance as possible, or even of not using tracks in advertising.

All that appears to matter now is penetration as hard and fast as possible. I'd like to beleive it's not true but the idea of growing bands steadily is increasingly rare I'm afraid. Using your examples, if U2 were starting today they'd have never made it past a second album.

i've not changed my opinion - it's a six. I merely said that I was reviewing harshly, not wrongly.

I may have been a little stern on the marking front. That I'm still listening to it repeatedly even after doing the review means that it must be good. I can't help but skip at least four though and that sucked the mark down. Otherwise it'd be an easy 8.

but I was keen to point that it isn't boundary pushing in the way that some have painted it. Not a criticism of the song, more of the people who've tried to attach undue significance to it.

that shimmering spectoresque thing better than anyone in a while. I love 'em.

for context. It's their yardstick innit.

It's just opinion

It's 'Come Get It, Ive Got It'. Whether the prticular song you're after is on it or not, it's well worth a purchase.

That'd be a week well spent.

to remember, that you are defined not only by those things that you affiliate yourself with with, but also by what you posit yourself against.

Leave blinkered, unceasing praise to the fanboys, thanks.

So you're saying don't review anything unless you're going to fawn over it like your own new-born child.

You sign up to review my review saying how you hate reviews. Incomprehensible.

In short, cock off.

See. This guy's a writer.

Gravity Grave.

I could go on...

that's because A Storm In Heaven as an album is light years away from Forth, whereas...Urban Hymns is a little more similar?

I think most people on here would agree that early Verve is preferable:

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2143996

If other bands - naming no names - had produced this they'd be coralled into the old timers penn with a quick brush off and few good words.

up there^.

Off you go.

that I just just had to look up what purplest meant?

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2930878

Made me never trust the NME again.

A lesson I should've learned sooner.

Not an article though is it?

I don't expect deep insightful analysis from a news flash. I want fact. He's dead. The last bit funnily enough is also actually fact - A bit irreverent possibly, but fact...

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/field-guide-north.php

I happily included myself in that 'fetid' description. I'm well aware of what I am. I also maintain that ramming an intimate venue with industry types will never make for a better show.

Oh my, how wrong you are.

Bradford is prolific and then some. Perhaps if he held off and gathered an albums worth of rock solid gold he could deliver a masterwork, but somehow I suspect that'll just never be his style.

was I reckon.

This. One of the best things I've heard is 'Gravity Grave' from when they last played Glastonbury.

I just have. How can he possibly be funny AND review the thing at the same time?

post is crying out for proper sentences. And the last thing I said was that I'd be first in the queue for tickets. just...ah, why bother.

read this informed and, yes, enthused review of Kevs than one by someone who was less familiar with Jamie - Especially as this site has been by and large following him for a long time now. To ask that we then revert to pretending otherwise is silly.

There's not a writer at DiS who is 'closer to the ground' than Kev on this one, and Im afraid that like it or not that made him the natural choice to review it.

Remember the fawning articles on Oasis or The Libertines? Sometimes people really do have their fingers on the pulse, whether or not you agree with what they like on the other hand...

Agreed, the production/mix is one of the biggest problems and I think is why it doesn't hang together like it should.

He was wearing the sandwich board on the cover of 'This is Music' back in the day. Maybe not as light fingered as you thought eh?

And for the record this is actually one of about 3 good songs on an otherwise dull record. Bad review, tainted further by an obvious personal dislike.

Manic obsessives. I was once nearly attacked by a mob of them for having the gall to speak to a mate (*once*) during a solo portion of his set. Moments later he fell off the stage and boke his wrist (as I hexed him and his minions).

He is good though.

De Rigeur at the moment seems to be to kick Ashcroft about. Fine, call him a twat like you know him but I would hazard a guess that you're not very familiar with his music. At least Wayne Coyne acknowledges that the the man has made good music - albeit going back some time. Ashcrofts always struck me as being idealistic rather than twatty. Abstaining from collecting an award for example could be construed as recognising the event for the cock-fest that it is. Besides, I like my musicians with a little swagger, it all adds to the spectacle.

Coyne riding the crowd in an inflatable hampsterball at O2 though.....genius.

Like him. He just got a bit pissed up s'all. Im of the opinion that music doesn't always have to be fun. For Ashcroft it's obviously always been more about therapy anyway, and bad though his solo album are, for what its worth I think that the verve *meant something*. I just don't think that kind of song writing is in vogue anymore.

is a superb article.

Im not saying that KC are innovative, but that through bands like them others flourish. The vast majority of records - somewhere in the region of eighty percent - never recoup the money spent on them. Therefore KC not only redirect a focus towards bands and create a climate where others are more able to be heard, but also pay towards nuturing more leftfield music that doesn't sell in the same volume.