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THE BRAVERY The Sun and the Moon (Universal) |
 THE Bravery always looked set to be a sort of anti-Bush (the band, not the warmonger): far more popular across the Atlantic than in its native New York. It's little wonder then that the album opens with a barrage of influences from sources as disparate as The Cure and Kaiser Chiefs. In short, its music is immediately reminiscent of everything that's big in Britrock right now, down to the thread of melancholy that permeates the album. There are blatantly down tunes such as The Ocean and This is Not the End, but even the more uptempo offerings like Believe, Every Word is a Knife in My Ear and Fistful of Sand pulse with a subcutaneous sadness. To sum up, considering that the band's previous claims to fame were the half-decent single Honest Mistake and a well-publicised tiff with fellow synth rockers The Killers, The Sun and the Moon is better than it has any right to be, and far outstrips The Bravery's uneven debut. The lyrics are occa- sionally clunky, but gems like Bad Sun and Time Won't Let Me Go make up for that shortfall on this surprisingly solid album. |
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