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The Indelicates
The Last Significant Statement To Be Made In Rock�n�Roll Sad Gnome Records

Article written by Ged M - Apr 22, 2007

You can express disillusion with the way pop is eating itself in two ways: a fuck-you-and-turn-the-amps-to-11 nihilism or a smart dissection of the problem using words like stanley knives. The Indelicates opt for the latter: whether it�s ripping apart the music scene in the title track (�everything that follows is a footnote�) or the attraction of drugs in �Heroin� (�not the bad heroin/ the good heroin, that rock stars take�), their lyrics are clever and barbed. And they can rock too; �The Last Significant Statement�� smacks you in the napper with its anthemic pop while �Sixteen� has an amazing powerpop chorus. They�ve got a tendency to the epic: there are plenty of Queen or even Meatloaf moments but the arrangements are grounded by clever wordplay, or vice versa: �Stars� starts as a twinkly ballad but is instantly subverted by Julia�s opening couplet: �I�m in love with the boy next door/ he treats me like a filthy whore�. As artpop goes, it�s damn fine stuff and the title is a contender for best title ever.

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