Of all the brilliant bands that never broke, Chicago’s Eleventh Dream Day are perhaps the unluckiest. Playing Neil Young goes garage burnouts in the Eighties deadzone, pre-grunge and post-punk, their eponymous 1987 album is an all time great debut.
Their first record in five years maintains altitude whilst rarely soaring. Former lieutenants departed, Rick Rizzo lacks a foil for the group’s trademark twin lead guitar firewalls on raging riffs that smoulder where once they would have smoked.
But Away With Words, a slow, pensive number, underscored by Doug McCombs’ cautiously melodic bass, equals anything in their back catalogue.
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Al Murray, Comedian
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John Robins, Comedian
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World Without End, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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