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‘Troubled Teens’ (Single, Twisted Nerve) It’s disappointing that the first pressing of The Liftmen’s ‘Luftwaffe Pond’ (out 2 Apr) was destroyed in the riot-induced PIAS fire last year. You would have hoped that, if miracles did exist, they would exist in the form of fumes of polycarbonate plastic leading to the discovery of a perfectly preserved box of Liftmen CDs, somehow flung from the blaze just in time. But miracles do not exist and if you want a taste of gritty reality, you could do worse than listen to the album’s first single, ‘Troubled Teens’. Cryptic lyrics speak of a dark urban landscape – dirty fights and “waiting for the offy to open” – over the muted tones of angular guitar riffs, driven by krautrock rhythms. (Leah Pritchard) Copyright Leah Pritchard 2012 |
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Gary Numan
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Philharmonia/Ashkenazy
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