Hefner - We Love the City
(Too Pure)
I didn't know quite what to expect from Hefner,
having never heard them previously, but I tend
to trust Too Pure as they are a great label who has put
out records from everyone from Stereolab and Mouse on
Mars to Pram and Moonshake to PJ Harvey. So, I figured
We Love the City was worth a shot.
However, I don't like this record at all. Perhaps it was the
singing which I found to be mixed too high and really
grating or maybe the songs that seemed overtly
precocious, but Hefner really got on my nerves. I
really liked the background singing and at times I
felt that a couple of songs had potential, but a
stupid chorus (possibly lifted from a Blur song)
inevitably crept up and wrecked any subtlety that had
been established.
I guess that this type of sappy,
dramatic music doesn't particularly appeal to me.
There's a lot of songs on the record though, so if you
like this sort of thing, that's pretty good I guess.
If you don't, the record can seem interminable.
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