Kassidy: One Man Army – review

(Vertigo)Glasgow quartet Kassidy attract an unaccountable amount of ire, with critics lining up to denounce their 70s-throwback soft rock. Maybe it's that "K"? There seems little other reason for pronouncing them "godawful" when they're clearly not. On their second album, they certainly fall back on derivative harmonic techniques – any resemblance to Crosby, Stills & Nash is, presumably, intentional – and aim for a sweetly emollient guitar sound rather than originality. But they layer i...

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