The Big Pink: Future This – review

(4AD)At its best, The Big Pink's first album was a patchwork of fuzz and scuzz, but it was the bombastic pop of Dominos that took them beyond their east London enclave and into the charts. It makes sense, in a way, that much of this followup sounds like it's aiming to replicate the feel of that radio-friendly unit-shifter rather than the dreamy haze of early songs like Velvet. Occasionally it works. 1313 reaches for an anthem and somehow grabs hold of it, while single Hit the Ground (Superman) c...

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