The Rifles News: The Rifles - Great Escape (2009)

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  British 80s power pop lives! You can easily be mistaken into believing that The Rifles' "Great Escape" is some arcane reissue from 1987. Yet this band has only been around for about three years; they have absorbed far more choice rock cuts than their years would suggest.  Herein are gleefully sharp riffs and slightly snotty vocals that imply that the band secretly wants to save the world and thinks they can do it in a three minute song. There are moments in each of these songs, all of them, when you just might believe them.

Seemingly without effort, the...

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