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The first Audio Bullys LP ('Ego War') is a classic, swaggering hooligan house brilliance, an album I played to death back in 2003 and 2004. As for the second LP ('Generation'), well, I never even bothered with it. I hated the Nancy Sinatra sampling single, a desperate bid for chart success as far as I was concerned, and the tracks off the LP I heard on the internet were awful. I thought Audio Bullys were finished. The five-year gap between 'Generation' and their third LP ('Higher Than The Eiffel') seemed to confirm this fact, a group struggling for inspiration, struggling to recapture the genius of their first effort.
Then I heard 'Only Man' (the first single off the new LP) on the radio. I was pleasantly surprised. Was the old magic back? The old swagger was for sure. I wondered if it was a one-off, though, and bought this album more in hope than expectation. I can now state 'Only Man' isn't a one-off, this is a massive return to form. In fact it's better than 'Ego War'. There's more variety here. There's the stomping dance stuff, of course, but there are new wave influences ('Twist Me Up'), the deeply unpleasant and paranoid (this is a compliment) 'Smiling Faces', which switches from sweet pop to thumping beats in an instant, and string-laden epics like 'Drums (On With The Story)'. The only duffer is a slightly reggae-influenced track called 'Dragging Me Down'. The rest is big city tales, alcohol- and narcotic-fuelled hedonism and (occasionally) nostalgia. It's mostly dark but almost all brilliant.
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Recensito nel Regno Unito il 17 luglio 2010