Music review: ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE
Last updated: 09-Dec-05 01:35 GMT
by PAUL WHITELAW
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They pick listlessly at the cadavers of so many other better bands, like bored cannibals at the end of a day-long picnic, a leg of Coldplay here, a tuft of Blur there, with a foul odour of eau de Libertines permeating the whole sorry mess. Some songs sound like Echobelly without Sonya Aurora Madan, which I wish was a joke, but I assure you it isn't. Others sound like Dodgy without the trailblazing spirit. Hang on, who's that on drums? It actually is the drummer from Dodgy. Is it really time to start feeling nostalgic for this stuff? What with Chris Evans back on TV, it's like the last ten years never happened.
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