Cripes, this track sounds so much like ‘Deadwood’ by Dirty Pretty Things, if you wrapped it in an Oxfam leather jacket, stuck some brogues on it and added some tour-honed stubble you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. So, by definition, this effort from the Swedish five-piece is sub-Libertines three-star urch-rock which just leaves you yearning for the days when Pete was more interested in rock’n’roll than drugs’n’models.
Mando Diao
Long Before Rock’N’Roll (Mute)
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