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01/07/00 nme online singles
review
Animalhouse
Ready To Receive(Boilerhouse)
With Andy Bell confined to minding his
language in what's left of the world's former greatest band, Ride's legacy looks
sorrier by the day. Especially the day next week when this atrocity hits the
stands.
Mark
Gardener may have boasted all the charisma of a punctured tyre, but in their
pomp the band he once fronted did have a certain something: the ability to
stretch beyond their obvious limitations and come within sniffing distance of
God's flanged armpit. Animalhouse, however, offer an unwelcome reminder of what
Ride were not all those years ago, principally Jesus Jones covering Duran
Duran's 'Is There Something I Should Know' if this rinky-tinkling
boil-in-a-baggy psychedelic shuffle is representative of their oeuvre.
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