The Naked and Famous: Passive Me, Aggressive You - review

(Fiction)Beneficiaries of much NME hype, not to mention a gong for best up-and-coming band at the magazine's recent awards, Auckland's Naked and Famous may find it hard to translate all that stuff into tangible success outside New Zealand. It's not that Passive Me, Aggressive You isn't fine in its own way. The group's high regard for MGMT, Nine Inch Nails and the shoegaze era has been distilled into a sound that's admittedly derivative, yet packed with interest in the shape of brilliant melodies...

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