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Let's Bottle Bohemia  Hear it Now

RS: 2of 5 Stars

2004

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Last year the Thrills' So Much For The City replicated the sunshine pop of early-Seventies Beach Boys so well and with so many hooks that no one cared that City was recorded by five Irish guys living in this century. On the sequel, the Dublin quintet repeats the widescreen arrangements of its debut with fewer first-rate tunes, and its fakeness comes to the fore.

When the melodies click, so does their sonic flashback. "Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?" soars with cinematic strings, Captain and Tennille keyboards and abundant ooohs, and "Not for All the Love in the World" drops the tempo for an equally gorgeous piano ballad. But the songwriting elsewhere is slighter, and singer Conor Deasy's mannerisms soon grate. The thrill of the Thrills is already almost gone.

BARRY WALTERS

(Posted: Oct 28, 2004)

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