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グラスヴェガス 2008年発売『Glasvegas』のアナログ盤

Rolling Stone (p.67) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Glasvegas create wall-of-distortion melodrama that draws on the Jesus and Mary Chain, Sixties girl groups and the Velvet Underground's rain-dance pulse." Billboard (p.33) - "Throughout are dense anthems, treacly guitar workouts and such arty excursions as the spare spoken-word treatise 'Stabbed.'" Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey're a glorious return to the reverb and Jack Nitzsche production sound that The Jesus And Mary Chain trumpeted back in the mid-'80s." Mojo (Publisher) (p.72) - Ranked #7 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[I]t's James Allan's lyrics that leaves the longest shadow..." Blender (Magazine) (p.64) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Daddy's Gone,' with its elegiac keys and choral harmonies is the FIELD OF DREAMS of rock songs....Glavegas make it cool to care." Clash (Magazine) (p.109) - "Opener 'Flowers And Football Tops' sneers of Phil Sepctor, while the Ronettes-ringing 'Daddy's Gone' wonderfully couples dampened innocents with the black-clad cool of The Velvet Underground....Each tune laments a lush and epic musical story..."

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