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Francis Harold and the Holograms - Who Said These Were Happy Times

Review by Philip Bloomfield

But novelty is overrated when it comes to noise rock: what matters is intensity, a healthy dose of insanity and some filthy sounding sludge, played at breakneck speed and crushing volume. »

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just when you thought there was nothing else to be had from the saturated, reverb damaged noise-garage american hinterland, francis harold and the holograms come along and blow all the other twee'd up losers out the water. a real cacophonous epiphany here, already captured by the likes of hozac. absolute killer noise washes with growling basslings, drawled vocals from deep within the soul, like the devil's own garage band trapped in a tin shack on a boiling summer's day, slowly suffocating. everything about this band absolutely slays...
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