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Post by HC on May 23, 2011 22:29:49 GMT -5
First single off of their third album Killer Sounds. Very different. This feels like a grower, but I'm used to their songs being more immediately catchy.
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Post by backintime on May 24, 2011 13:10:55 GMT -5
I was just wondering when they were coming back the other day, so I went on YouTube to watch some of their old videos, and lo-and-behold I saw this! This is the kind of sound they should have come back with on their second album. That album was too much of a weak retread of their debut and now this song sounds like something that should have come out at the height of Mark Ronson's domination in 2006-7 on their second album. It underscores my thoughts that there's no place for them in music anymore, much as I like them. There seems to be a lot of acts that peaked around that time that are so tied musically and thematically to the mid-noughties and it dates them. Hard-Fi were big in 2005, but it feels like much longer than six years ago to me. I get the same feeling with Arctic Monkeys, who I always felt were like the northern equivalent of Hard-Fi. They just seem so out of place in modern day music.
Anyway, I do like the song, but the fact that it sounds like a landfill indie "99 Problems" produced by Mark Ronson really adds to my feeling that this belongs in the last decade.
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