Review: The Wedding Present - The Wedding Present
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By linking up with Steve Albini, Dave Gedge is deliberately linking his modern incarnation of The Wedding Present with the ferocious four piece that released Seamonsters back in the 1990s. Back then, Albini took the energetic indie-rockers and converted them into an unsettlingly powerful outfit, with Gedges small-town tales of love and loss transformed into something quite sinister by Albinis angular production. The same trick doesnt really work twice: The Wedding Present in 2008 dont have the same edge, and Albinis lackadaisical attitude to vocals often leaves Gedges voice exposed and drab. Yet aside from the nostalgia of hearing those tiny...
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