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"What this does do is showcase the diverse capabilities of what is a fairly new band."
September 15, 2009
Album review: Stricken City - 'Songs About People I Know'
Sweetly shambolic indie-pop to fall in love with
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8 / 10
If this was the early ’80s Stricken City would be labelmates of Orange Juice, as this mini-album features eight of the prettiest, shambling C86-style pop nuggets since the Postcard era. Intentionally angular and amateurish, ‘Pull The House Down’, ‘Five Metres Apart’ and ‘Killing Time’ offer skittish, playful guitar lines, fidgety bass and one-finger keyboards, all deliciously cut with Rebekah Raa’s striking, spectral chirrup, which is more than a little reminiscent of Sugarcubes-era Björk. With gawky, naive charm in abundance, this will be an album to make many
a student sigh dreamily as they lovingly scrawl I Heart Stricken City onto their pencil cases in Tippex.
Tessa Harris
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