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SUNDAY
TIMES - Review
"The failure of Apple's
iTunes
website to co-operate
with the majority of the
UK's independent labels
exemplifies consumer
culture's illusion of
choice. The same music
one can already access
easily via Amazon
or HMV
now also comes direct to
your laptop at reduced
cost, while the margins
are further marginalised.
Meanwhile, the new album
by The
Beale
is available to download,
entirely free or as a
CD... The group infect a
1980s post-punk template
with furious kitchen-sink
surrealism and comical
provincial belligerence.
Their front man, Adrian
Shaw,
is a great English
eccentric waiting to be
discovered. Fall
fans will embrace the
group's impatience with
rebranded lemonade and Superking-smoking
men. Even the merely
curious can afford to
investigate." 4/5 - Stewart
Lee |
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