Artist: Stereophonics
Title: Keep Calm & Carry On
Label: Mercury
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: 188kbit av
Time: 00:45:02
Size: 63.51 mb
Rip Date: 2009-11-20
Str Date: 2009-11-16
01. She's Alright 3:26
02. Innocent 3:40
03. Beerbottle 3:53
04. Trouble 3:03
05. Cold You Be The One 3:52
06. I Got Your Number 3:21
07. Uppercut 4:15
08. Live 'N' Love 3:45
09. 100mph 4:15
10. Wonder 3:44
11. Stuck In A Rut 3:06
12. Show Me How 4:42

Release Notes:

Look, it's far too easy to be plain mean about Stereophonics, but the
title of the Welsh band's seventh album is an open goal. Taken from the
recently popularised Second World War propaganda poster, the phrase
reeks of ambition-free, meat and potatoes, join-the-dots rock; they
might just as well have called it Meh! or Shrug

But enough negativity. It's no mystery what makes Stereophonics so
popular: Kelly Jones's instantly recognisable Velcro rasp and his
ability to write robust little rock songs with big hooks. What they
lack in inspiration they make up for in perspiration and occasionally
as with the fantastic Dakota, they write a song so incontestably great
it turns subjective critical opinion to dust

Keep Calm and Carry On offers only a slight change in emphasis. The
sound is leaner than before, featuring more electronics and fewer big
guitars, and when it works it's pretty fine. She's Alright is
engagingly stupid-simple, a propulsive and decidedly moreish opener
that succeeds in pulling off the kind of louche, riff-driven rock U2
attempted so disastrously with Get on Your Boots. There's a pleasing
glam strain running through I Got Your Number, Trouble is a powerpop
blast and the Motown thump of Innocent shows Jones once again obsessing
over small-town nostalgia, the protagonists "holding hands, drinking
cans in the orange light"

Much of the rest is solid, tidy and obvious, whether it's big ballad
Could You be the One?, limper than week-old lettuce, Uppercut, a poor
man's Dakota, or Stuck in a Rut, a puffing bluesy rocker. In honour of
their doughty, workmanlike album title, Stereophonics deserve doughty
workmanlike praise: they're a safe pair of hands, and this record does
exactly what it promises. There are worse crimes