Veterans of the same Seventies Melbourne punk-shamanism class as Nick Cave, Crime & The City Solution ended up transplanted to America via decadent pre-unification Berlin.
Returning to active service, the band takes a global perspective, from the title track’s hard-funk depiction of Detroit’s decline, to the MC5 play mariachi music romanticism of My Love Takes Me There.
Here’s an unexpectedly cohesive set of intelligent, classy, and thunderous widescreen alterno-rock destined to raise the roofs of publicly funded venues in any European cities that still have an arts budget.
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Bosco239, youtube
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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World Without End, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube