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Land Lovers – Confidants
Popical Island

Dublin’s Land Lovers have taken an ambitious theme for their second album, encompassing the joys of youthful discovery and the encroaching mortality of old age.  Chief songwriter Padraig Cooney marries the joys of discovering musical heroes to Roxy Music keyboards and chugging glam guitars on ‘The Cinema Bell’ and pays tribute to intellectual Eighties pop music on ‘As Low As Possible’, but pathos is never far away.  ‘Terry & Julie’ depicts a dying man living out his final romantic fantasies with a lyrical lightness Ray Davies would be proud of.  If the self-effacing winsomeness  gets a bit repetitive at times (‘Legion of Saps’), Land Lovers have more than enough charm to avoid drifting into self-parody. Jordan Cullen

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KEY TRACKS: ‘AS LOW AS POSSIBLE’, ‘LIFE’S WORK’, ‘TERRY & JULIE’.

FOR FANS OF: HEFNER, TEENAGE FANCLUB, THE SHINS.

 

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