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The Futureheads

The Beginning Of The Twist // NUL

OK, so this is the most conventional ’Heads song yet – there are no asymmetric turns and only a hint of the lobotomised barbershop quartet that we’ve come to know and love. However, ‘The Beginning Of The Twist’ is the type of roaring and utterly loveable comeback we’ve been waiting for after the damp angular squib that was ‘News And Tributes’. A chorus that comes screeching out of the belfry and a verse that dances with its bobby socks still on, ‘The Beginning…’ breathes a stadium-sized sonic sheen into the band. Great, but can Barry stop wearing the bow tie now?
PE

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Glaswegian Impulse 

Mar 16, 2008

i dont know if i would have enjoyed the single as much without the bow tie?

airguitarsuperstar 

Mar 18, 2008

Great tune, and a more rock direction it seems? They've lost the harmonising, such as what was in Hounds of Love. A catchy lil' number, and the bow tie??? If that's what he wants to attire in, leave him be. It's about the tunes not the clothes!

walberque 

Apr 28, 2008

one of the stupidest decisions made by the nme was to stop reviewing "singles" in favour of "tracks." case in point: the b-side, "get out today," is far and away superior to the a-side. but you wouldn't know that, would you? please, go back to reviewing bloody singles.

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