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The London Fractures Show Us Yours
Self released - itunes
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written by James G
May 9, 2008.
From the moment this EP kicks off with ‘English Lass’, a chantalong account of how "the first week’s alright/ now she’s getting on my nerves" delivered in a sub Dick Van Dyke accent, and I find my foot tapping along… well, this act conjure up feelings of self-hatred in yours truly. Feelings that continue with the tappery that accompanies ‘Annie’ ‘Hands Are Tied’ ‘Just A Number’ and the rest of this 6-track slice of bawdy, shoutalong indierock. Featuring lines like "Show me yours and I’ll show you mine", "I’m eighteen/ she’s thirty/ does that make/ me dirty?" and "Annie had a ladder in her tights right to her thigh/ I could tell by the shortness of her skirt that she weren't shy", I finally decide on the right phrase to sum up this genre of music. It’s ‘Wannabe Yob Rock’. You know, they’re probably nice boys, well brought up with respectable parents. Sniggering away as they write another mucky couplet, just wishing they were, dunno, a bit less… nice, at heart. And I hope I never hear this dumb, depressing, seventiesesque throwbackery again. Problem is, I think I will. I can see The London Fractures having a hit – maybe more than that – and becoming successors to the throne previously occupied by the likes of Razorlight and Oasis.
If you like that kind of cocky, ‘five English boys with guitars and raging levels of Testosterone’ type music, you’ll love this, as they do it so very well. ‘Wannabe Yob Rock’: You read it here first.
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