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• All hail Centrefolds for their unashamed pursuit of mass approval (and, possibly, the soundtrack to a Miley Cyrus film). This is commercial indie that you happily hum along to for 15 minutes before realizing you aren’t supposed to approve. The Bath-based four-piece ooze strong hooks – these, teamed with the slightly emo lead vocal of Phil Smith and choppy, Strokes-ish guitars, produce a string of ‘T4 On The Beach’-friendly, late 70s/early 80s-tinged pop-rock pearls stretching from confident opener ‘In Your Blood’ through to The Script-ish ‘Talk To Me’. Non-specific adolescent angst dominates the lyric sheet at present, but flourishes such as “Now you’re off into the sunset on someone else’s horse” suggest this is nothing an afternoon in the pub with a red pen couldn’t fix. Nice. (Anna Britten)
Copyright Anna Britten 2011
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