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Title: Elastica - Pop-Punk New Wave of New Wave
Review: Elastica deserve a place somewhere in the Hall Of Fame for Pop. Sadly thanks to boybands and their ilk, pop's good name has taken a thrashing. THERE ARE GOOD POP BANDS! Whoa. Crowded House to name one. Elastica are another.Elastica fuses the angular riffs of Wire and the Stranglers with big, catchy hooks that can instantly win you over. None of the members of the group are instrumentally dextrous, but they more than make up for it with their enthusiasm in playing, which shines through the nature of their songs, all which would sound perfect as singles. My personal favourites are Connection, the one with the riff stolen from Wire about hearts and spades; Stutter, the two minute twenty second burst of punk energy about a speech impendiment (not really); Waking Up, a song that I believe we can all relate to and Never Here, which is heartbreakingly beautiful and romantic in ways I can't express.
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