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Posted on 19/06/09 at 11:42:28 am
Critics are unanimous: Jack Penate's new album 'Everything Is New' marks a startling creative leap forward. This unexpected shift – from knock-kneed cod-reggae troubadour to sophisticated dance-pop craftsman – has been greeted with the kind of stupefied, slack-jawed amazement that might greet a five-year-old who's mastered string theory, or a dog who's miraculously learned to juggle.
There's something slightly patronising about this. Penate's debut album wasn't that bad, just a little lightweight. Neither is his new effort as weird and unexpected as people are making out. Penate has produced an album of soulful, Belaearic-tinged electro-pop. It's not like he's gone free jazz, or gabba, or reinterpreted the hits of Jacques Brel using only hurdy-gurdy and swanee whistle.
Even so, it's an undeniably impressive record, one to file alongside The Horrors' 'Primary Colours' and The Maccabees' 'Wall Of Arms' in the growing pantheon of Indie Bands' Second Albums That Are Actually Really Good.
It's tempting to imagine that these records set an important precedent. From now on, bands who stubbornly serve up more of the same unappetising gruel – The Enemy, say - will be shunned and ridiculed, while bands who attempt something exotic and surprising will be embraced and revered.
Nor is this pleasing trend limited to mid-level indie bands. Look at Kasabian. Even their fiercest critics would have to accept that 'West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum' – with its psychedelic lurches of tempo and subject matter – displays a certain manic, goggle-eyed inventiveness.
How to explain this newfound drive for experimentation amongst guitar bands? Perhaps it's a by-product of music's new economic reality. Albums don't sell anymore - their only function is to promote a tour. Which means the pressure is off. If hardly anyone is going to pay for the thing, you might as well have fun making it. Why play safe?
Most people assumed the rise of the iPod would ultimately kill the album as a format, as people increasingly downloaded individual tracks. Clearly, that hasn't happened. CDs have perished; albums have proved remarkably resilient.
All of which gives us a reason to face the future with excitement and enthusiasm, rather than cynicism and dread.
Klaxons, we learnt this week, are not releasing a second record until 2010. Given current trends, it's possible to believe that they'll actually use that time to craft something progressive and intriguing, rather than sit around scoffing their own weight in MDMA cupcakes.
Who knows where this new mood might take today's baby bands? Perhaps Glasvegas will decide to take stock, realise they're bored of being dour and gloomy, and return with an album of jazz-handing Gilbert and Sullivan covers? Maybe Vampire Weekend will go thrash, or Florence will write some actual tunes, rather than just bellowing indiscriminately over harp-strings. The possibilities are endless…
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[Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 12:07
INDIE has gone wrong, if you ask me. It seems to be all about electronics now.
Freddy D [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 12:37
What is the actual point in this 'article'? Are you Jack Penate's PR man? He's a talentless prick who can't sing, but hang on, he's got some good producers on his side and has produced a what you say is a good album? Glasvegas and Florence have more talent and better tunes in their little fingers than this fat little scenester London sensation. The Horrors and The Maccabees albums are brilliant though so can't argue with that
Matt [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 12:57
There's only one album that matters this year - The Resistance!
b*llshit [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 13:01
jack penate relatively successful first album comes back wit a change in style album of electro-pop. just so happens to be the genre that is getting most press and record sales etc at the moment. that sounds like playing it safe to me . .
Leum [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 13:02
This blog raises a good point, but I think that these bands are producing better music because they realised everything was becoming stale and generic and that if you don't stand out, you'll be drowned amongst the legions of talentless wannabes. Let's hope for more great british indie albums cos' at the moment the states are whooping us with their animal collectives and grizzly bears.
Yatesface [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 13:24
All this bold reinvention is making my head spin... thank goodness for the ship-steadying presence of the Gallaghers, and their career-long adherence to oafish, witless, torpid, potato-headed, mechanically reclaimed lad-rock. In a world of change, they are the comfortable Parka...
Paul [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 13:39
I haven't been impressed with a single album released this year yet
Jack [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 13:44
i think i must be the only person who actually liked Penate's first record, and prefered the maccabees debut to their second. And to the bloke who's talking about Oasis, listen to Definitely Maybe, and then to DOYS, and point out any similarities, the only one i can find is the abundance of MASSIVE TUNES
here's one [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 14:36
http://cdbaby.com/cd/weavertwins
alex [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 14:48
ahh yes-the traditional bashing of oasis on an unrelated article.God bless them
Yatesface [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 14:51
'Massive tunes', Jack? Seriously? Dig Out Your Soul doesn't have a single song that I'd stick on a jukebox or look forward to hearing live... it's white noise. I grant you, the 'groove' element is a slight departure by Oasis standards - but everyone knows that groove is what you end up with when you can't write a decent melody.
Luke Lewis [Member] //June 19 2009 at 14:52
Do we have to talk about Oasis? This blog was supposed to be about bands who tried new things!
MRT [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 15:05
what about 'Hombre Lobo' by Eels?? best one so far
Gaz H [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 15:09
......you have got to be joking right ?????.....same old plodding Coldfray style backing track, added Ronson horns, fancy production, incredibly safe music for the sheep to buy.....don't like his mockney voice either....
FED UP AT WORK [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 15:55
wont be buying anything by jack, just cant get into it at all, the maccabees new stuff is very good and i was lucky enough to catch them live a few weeks ago in belfast and they were great even if the crowd was abit flat. the horrors have only started to turn my head because when they first came out i thought there were abit of a novelity act. for the record i also think oasis last album was great, i real return to form after a few very bad albums. not sure if i agree with the blog in that i think on the whole 2008/09 has been very flat, mainly due to the over exposure of indie music in 06/07 and one trick pony bands like the kooks who were radio friendly teeny boppers who used the scene as a free ride. i do hope you are right tho Mr lewis as fresh new albums are just what we need and the more the better.........some1 tell the kings of leon this to because if i hear another obtn i will lose all faith in a once refreshingly different band!
AR [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 16:14
True, albums this year from The Horrors, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the Manics have been a step up from anything released last year, but to call this a 'golden age' for albums is ridiculous. Will anyone actually remember any of the Jack Penate's, The Maccabees albums etc. in twenty/thirty years time in the same light as the NME covered 'Unknown Pleasures' thirty year aniversary this week, I much doubt it. 1979 may have been slap bang in the middle of a golden age, but 2009 - i very much doubt it.
Oscar [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 16:50
Every band mentioned is shit. This year will be good for music because of the following: Regina Spektor, potentially Joanna Newsom, Pearl Jam, maybe The Black Crowes and Howling Bells. Albums already released this year that are good: Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Mastodon. And you never know, whatever Amy Winehouse releases, if indeed she does, might be good. Both previous albums proved she is a force to be reckoned with when on form.
neil [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 16:53
shut up. claptrap. ive bought one new release this year - primary colours. ONE ALBUM BOUGHT. thats fuck all to do with a recession, and everything to do with a lack of imagination from the dross you promote.
i agree with AR - if - BIG IF - you're still around in 30 years time, i very much doubt you'll be heralding the anniversary of jack penate's album in the same way you've done with unknown pleasures.
1990- now that was a year. as was 91. 94 and 97 weren't bad either. that's where it ended.
George-O [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 16:53
08/09 has been alright...
I think that Kasabian's album is good, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs had a great one too.
But the best album released from 08/09 so far has got to be Fantasy Black Channel by Late Of The Pier. Inventive, creative and brilliant, it deserves it's place as Mercury Prize favourite.
dog [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 16:58
i wanted to say something for a long time, so here it goes. luke: i think that as a music journalist you have completaly lost your critic judgment. your writings are fancy, but that is just because you have inherited an eloquent style while studying. you have a certain sense of a subject and go for it as your feelings tell you, but leaving a good internal scientific deliveration aside. i don't mean that music journalists should be scientists: artists often merge intuition with reason, and the quality of an artist depends on the grade of truth of the rational tought and the grade of beauty the subject is able to develop. but critics, as journalists should be, should focus on the rational part more than the other. apparently you have neglected most of what you should have learnt about methods of investigation on your career, how do you infer that a genre as metal is ending by just thinking that the headlines in one festival, in one place of the world, with very limited acts, are old and not exciting enough. very. and where the answer is very simple you try to invent complexity where it doesn't exist interfering with your judgment your appreciation that artist you like don't play safe, when it is obvious they are doing it now, by being "experimental". by the way why an artist being conservative about their sound should be bad, isn't trying to be shocking and extravagant easier for being considered an artist nowadays than trying to deliver a good album without al those resources and gimmicks. thats it(sorry for any grammar or spelling errors, english is not my native language)
Derek Acorach [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 17:14
For me, the Dananananaykroyd album is the one that's had me loving music this year. So good!
Pal [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 17:26
The Longcut - Open Hearts...best album of 2009
aaaaaaron [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 17:42
some good albums have been released so far this year, the horrors, the maccabees, pete doherty's solo album etc. i am hoping there is more to come with arctic monkeys' 'humbug'. i expect big things :D
Danny [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 17:56
Crack The Skye by Mastodon is fantastic, and that is so far the best album I can name, although I haven't heard the new Manic Street Preachers album yet.
Anyway, only new album so far I'm geared up for is the new Flaming Lips one.
OmarLittle [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 18:09
This song that you're pimping sounds like f*cking Dexys Midnight Runners. Utter crap.
lassie [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 19:55
Super Furry Animals "Dark Days Light Years" is superb and also Phoenix and The Horrors.
Al [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 20:06
09 has been a great year simply because...
BLUR IS BACK
i can't wait to hear beetlebum, Song 2, Tender, park life, and all their other great hits again.
While i like Blur, i also enjoy Oasis, you can't deny their greatness. Sure they'll never write Definitely Maybe or What's the story? Morning glory again, but NOBODY ELSE can either, they did it once and that's what counts.
All this other electro-indie bullshite is a joke, what we need are more bands like Blur and Oasis. Bring back the 90's!
barrie black [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 20:38
why knock the enemys new album as more of the same? its a far better album than their debut - and after seeing them supporting oasis they are definatley heirs to the gallagher's throne
ru [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 22:58
I like the enemys new album, its really good! its not "different" but its still mint
[Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 23:15
the new horrors albums overated
bloody valentine did the same album years ago
Fuzzy Dunlop [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 23:19
Really not convinced it is anything like a golden age. The Horrors sound like they've come screaming out of a c.86 compilation; Jack Penate's stuff's just a little dull. Best albums this year have been Bob Dylan and Camera Obscura
Gus [Visitor] //June 19 2009 at 23:58
"Albums don't sell anymore - their only function is to promote a tour. Which means the pressure is off"
I'm really astonished at how naive your point is. Why do you think the Klaxons were forced to change their second album by their record company? It's exactly because record sales are ludicrous that the pressure is bigger than ever on the artists.
James [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 00:16
People started to get bored of the same stuff being made over and over again, the enemy tried doing it, so have kasabian, Franz Ferdinand said they changed to something different, and with LA Roux now, its all changing. Where do bands like Pigeon Detectives, Wombats stand with this? They don't stand much of a chance, because they can't really change their sound.
Terry Tibbs [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 00:21
florence is shite. thank you good night. much love
sc [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 01:36
tonight:franz ferdinand is awesome, morrisseys one is pretty good and of course 21st century breakdown. cant wait for new cribs and new muse
FJ [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 01:50
albums are still solid. Forth by The Verve was actually pretty decent. Radiohead's efforts are always well-rounded, for better or worse. And Oasis' Dig Out Your Soul was billed by GD himself as "not having a single on it". People still respect the album; maybe the demise of CDs and the clout of record companies has relieved someof the pressure on these big name bands and they're getting back to making music again instead of singles?
justboy [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 02:12
If the new Biffy Clyro album surfaces this year, the rest don't really matter. The rise of Biffy will hopefully be the fall of the Artic Monkey - still don't know how they sell "music".
Benbo [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 02:39
What an absolute waste of effort on your part writing this article. Journalism must be a fantastic profession for 99% of the people who embark on it. You fall into the 1%. The quagmire of writing about somebody so unbelievably, mind-numbingly tedious like this Jack Penate guy. But that isn't your fault music is soooooo stale nowadays. Does anyone else remember hearing Radioheads Just for the first time and going WOW! Or when Pulp hit us in the face with Common People? I mean I thought Franz Ferdinand were dull this guy has added dullness. Music isn't dead it's just hibernating. I will keep telling myself that
Steüph [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 09:15
I don't think I agree with the reason why the albums you mention are that good and daring (at least the ones I've heard : The Horrors and Kasabian, hey what about Animal Collective ?). But I do agree about the fact that the album format has somehow managed to survive the impending death of the CD. In fact we're hearing generally better albums, and not just from these new bands : DOYS is Oasis' best LP in years, the latest one from the Manics is awesome, the new album by Phoenix is a pop masterpiece, I still haven't recovered from Portishead's Third... Maybe there's some kind of emulation going on. Bands hear great records and it inspire them to make great records as well. And yes, Primary Colours is an amazing record, but it was produced by Geoff Barrow and let's not forget that Portishead's latest was just amazing, so it seems to spread to the "old" generation as well. Which is great. What's next ? A great new album from Blur ?
realist [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 10:02
the notion that bands are being given more freedom in this climate is total rubbish. labels are rejecting more albums than even before the pressure is on to produce something as commercial, shiny and radio friendly as possible. less bands are being signed majors are withdrawing funding from their "indie" imprint. its hardy than ever to find a release for chalenging and interesting music. this climate is all about minimising risk for the labels nothing to do with freedom for artists!!
realist [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 10:04
the notion that bands are being given more freedom in this climate is total rubbish. labels are rejecting more albums than ever before and the pressure is on bamds to produce something as commercial, shiny and radio friendly as possible. less bands are being signed and the majors are withdrawing funding from their "indie" imprints. its harder than ever to find a release for challenging and interesting music. this climate is all about minimising risk for the record label nothing to do with freedom for the artist!
Jack Penate [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 11:00
I just want Vampire Weekend to go Thrash now deck shoesXcore
realist [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 11:04
futhermore much of the music press seem to be supporting and applauding bands who are conforming and making the most commercial and safe music of their careers
chris morris [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 11:13
Regina..(.frank popp....Arctics hopefully)
chris morris [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 11:18
forgot the cribs...cant wait for that
hannah [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 11:56
i saw jack penate at glastonbury last year, embarrassing dancing and jumping around the stage with his guitar through the performance whilst shouting out pop music as if he's a teenager
dogballs [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 12:37
mastodon!
FED UP AT WORK [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 13:27
@JUSTBOY, hw could any1 think that biffy are better than the monkeys......how? u must be a teenager, i would love to know what ur basis for this is! the arctic monkeys wipe the floor with biffy lyrically.
ben [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 16:13
One album to come arctic monkeys. Also Rifles was good
Matthew [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 16:22
Indie has gone a completely different direction.A lot of bands that now are called indie are just a bunch of people who want to play it safe and get rich by making boring and meaningless music for the masses and for the radio.Same with every genre that has been around for too much.
jimmy [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 16:38
necessity for novelty, just whats wrong with music, art, human production in general, being different for the sake of it has always been what inmature spirits have copied from greatness, because it was the most visible aspect in their work, but being rebellious was only accidental, rebelliousness was romanticized by the vulg. not that the vulg should be undermined, but its conduct should not be revered
Don't be silly [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 17:03
Jack Penate is just rehashing 80s disposable pop music that has not aged well. To claim that this is the age of innovation in indie music is idiotic to say the least. Yes, there have been some good albums but nothing that is completely astounding. Grizzly Bear, Manics and Animal Collective come close but the vast majority is turgid and begging to be bummed by major labels and radio stations.
Michael [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 17:17
Presumably this kid is just on work experience or something? Terrible article. Can I have some work experience too? It'll look good on my CV. Admittedly I know nothing about music, but it didn't stop Luke.
Shandroid [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 18:18
LOLMOAREGGNOGZZ!!111Woo!
ryan sidebottom [Visitor] //June 20 2009 at 20:11
if your going to buy one album this year make it Merriweather Post Pavillion by Animal Collective. it shits on everything else so far!
Lou [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 02:27
claps for everyone!
Lou [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 02:57
claps for everyone! 50 comments is testament to Lukes lovely, personal style of writing. Music, though a changed thing from 79' or 90' (in accordance with the basic principle of time, sand through the hourglass, etc.) is bloody exciting right now. People seem to have taken stock of the fact that the music industry is a great-big-hulking-motherbitch and instead of stockpiling canned food and cowering in the basement, they're dancing in the streets going full on ape-shit. Maybe Primary Colours won't be celebrated in 30 years time, maybe Jack Penate will fall down a whole, but it seems to me that we shouldn't be focusing on what others will look back on 2009 as, we should just revel in the post-punk-folk-rock-indie-electro-soundtrack we've stumbled upon. yay for music and yay for all the passionate nut-jobs commenting on it!
the lonely lobo [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 09:04
The Empyrean by John Frusciante is the best album of 2009
the lonely lobo [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 09:04
The Empyrean by John Frusciante is the best album of 2009
i of little faith [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 10:16
jack penate now sounds like simply red, its not forward thinking or inventive in the least, just different from his debut.....wow. sounds even more middle of the road than the last to me....bands like of montreal have ben pushing the boundaries of 'pop' a LOT further than this for years....
Welcome to the "Golden Age" [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 12:25
...who gives a f**k, its all pop and its all there to be enjoyed...if you dont enjoy listening to it, why the formless diatribes, without an ounce of consequence? Dont care about what you don't like. Taking fashion too seriously will give you a migraine.
Ludovic Noir [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 12:35
This decade has seen the death of originality in music. The only great record I've heard this year is Yusuf Islam's Roadsinger (aka cat stevens) It takes an old timer to write with soul these days. The younglings are more shallow, self obsessed and more apathetic than any other generation before them. They simply have nothing to say at a point in time when so much is going on and needs to be addressed.Sad.
word ghettos [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 12:39
staus quo rule!!! :) :)
middle class teenage boredom [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 12:44
go to a gig whatever it is, even if the band have never had the dubious honour of being crowned for thirty five and a half seconds by the NME, withdraw from the debate! Go for a walk!
kate jacksons legs [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 15:36
Long Blondes did the same transformation last year for 'Couples'
Mmmmattt [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 15:41
I'd definitely agree with him in that loads of artists are experimenting at the moment, though maybe those reasons are more than just to do with pressure.
There's been loads of good albums this year though, White Lies, Golden Silvers - True Romance, The Fray, Tonight: Franz ferdinand... I even thought Kanye West's new album had something to it.
And the Arctic Monkey's have Sabbath influences in their new album!
Change is good. I welcome experimental.
luke [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 16:58
haha golden year? Jack penate? Topshop pop is really crawling a bit too far up its own are isn't it? anyone who actually like music (and is over 16) understands how lacking in substance this drivel is. This music is more about being fashionable than actually sitting down and enjoying the noise. There have been a few good albums (pains of being pure at heart, grizzly bear, dirty projectors) but saying its a golden year takes it slightl too far. You want a golden year try 1969. X
luke [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 17:05
saying the album isn't important and it only serves to promote a tour is such a ridiculous statement. the album is a piece of art. the problem nowadays is that nobody sees it that way and they just wanna get on the road and make some money. The good albums made with actual artistic integrity aren't given any attenion by the nme because as critics you are laughable and only focus on scenesters who bought a guitar cos it matches their skinny jeans and cardigan.
alec [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 17:39
This is NOT a golden age for music.
NOT AT ALL.
Reckoner [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 18:08
You people really need to buy the new Future Of The Left album tomorrow.
MurtyErty [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 18:24
Escape From The Sun - Operahouse. Insane album unfortunately missed by NME. If you love music check it out so different and awesome!
Barack Obama [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 18:46
animal collective
phoenix
passion pit
the horrors
grizzly bear
just jack
doves
fever ray
maccabees
late of the pier
tv on the radio
white lies
telekinesis
jack penate
= good music. quit dissing.
WeeWeee [Visitor] //June 21 2009 at 20:53
The day music is simply just button presses on a laptop is the day it is dead, i think that's happened. Bring back punk and DIY garage rock, something homegrown and meant to be played live. Essentially, bring back The Libertines, it's time for heroes.
Alijandro [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 00:17
I think what were forgetting here is the fact that Jack isn't trying to dwell in some crazy new style his new music is essentially good pop tracks. Luke is right a lot of bands second albums are so far this year very good i can agree with maccabees and the horrors and a lot of new bands have sprung out and come into the limelight i.e Dananananaykroyd Grammatics The answering and of Course White Lies. Bands such as kasabian and Manics are releasing healthy albums too and the Cribs too are also releasing there album in september which hopefully will sound epic. Overall the point is is that Indie on the whole is in a way evolving guitar based wise. Compare it to 2006/7 and theres quite clearly a difference in the sound maybe this has something to do with the whole LDN scene i dont know but if its decent music sells well in albums and is populer amongst us then it surely shouldnt be such a problem for me this years music has been SO MUCH Better than last years it seems much more energetic and more based around the idea of making something really fun and different
bang.bang.bandages [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 00:53
there are plenty of unusual and experimental bands out there, its just that some popular bands have realised that if they do the same thing on every album and the same as everyone else they wont be any more appealing to the public than any other band. As brilliant as the album is, the Horrors seemed to have taken a lot of influence from the Birthday Party, My Bloody Valentine, garage and shoegaze bands. Electronics seem to be the new thing in pop music but its hardly as if they're crafting soundscapes by programming their own software from scratch and integrating that into a song. With someone like Jack Peñate the new sound may well be down to the producer. The song is fairly generic in my opinion. Also Blur will be amazing, I hope they play some stuff off of Think Tank.
Liam [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 06:27
"From now on, bands who stubbornly serve up more of the same unappetising gruel – The Enemy, say - will be shunned and ridiculed, while bands who attempt something exotic and surprising will be embraced and revered."
Not as long as the clowns at NME continue to shower praise on bands who "serve up more of the same unappetising gruel" Oasis anyone?
Monitor [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 09:43
The Resistance by Muse should be something to look forward to, greatest live band on the planet!
gnu [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 14:15
Well whats wrong with a bit of electro, Kid A?
Tim [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 15:33
Certainly would not call 2009 a golden age for albums, favourites so far would be Franz Ferdinand - Tonight; Silversun Pickups - Swoon and Morrissey - Years of Refusal...
Peppernarmi [Visitor] //June 22 2009 at 15:51
Really funny blog, good work
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