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Title: Quietly Menacing
Review: The release of Christie Malry's Own Double Entry, a soundtrack, and The Oliver Twist Manifesto, a solo album, within weeks of each other confirms Luke Haines place - at least in Britain - as an agent provocateur of modern music. Christie Malry's Own Double Entry is the soundtrack to a film about modern terrorism, a subject that has haunted Haines work with both The Auteurs and Baader Meinhof. The instrumental work is quietly menacing - loads of strings and glockenspiel. The vocal tracks are cynical, as always, and more grim than usual. "In the Bleak Midwinter", with the Winchester Cathedral Choir, is horrific yet beautiful, and his remake of Nick Lowe's "(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass" a masterstroke.
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