James: The Night Before | CD review

(Mercury)Perhaps wary of the unfortunate trend for reunited bands' albums to fail to match former glories, James have rejigged their entire way of working. Founder guitarist Larry Gott rejoined the band for 2007's so-so comeback Hey Ma, but this first of two mini-albums was conceived virally, each member contributing and updating each others work via a website. The experiments have produced one of the strongest efforts of their career, combining the idiosyncrasies of their Factory/Rough Trade pe...

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