Pete and the Pirates: One Thousand Pictures – review

(Stolen)Peter Hefferan and his would-be dandy highwaymen have made it to a second album without making an enormous impact, but there's surely a place for pop music made with such love and craft. Something like a cross between the Kinks and Television Personalities, the Reading outfit write slightly psychedelic, pithily whimsical songs about the British way of life. This time around, they've added a sprinkling of synths and the occasional Giorgio Moroder pulsebeat, with varying results, but the...

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