The View: Cheeky for a Reason – review

(Cooking Vinyl)View frontman Kyle Falconer's description of his band's fourth album as "Fleetwood Mac's Rumours done by the Clash" will invite scorn, but "sprightly melodies executed with a hint of a sneer" wouldn't have conveyed the message quite so catchily. The Dundee group's metier is still the combining of rattling guitar-rock with lyrics that show greater empathy and self-awareness than you might expect – as ever, though, the words are swamped by the band's let's-rock boisterousness –...

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