Elastica

This album has been added to 2 public lists:

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  1001Albums

  Neil Hopkins

  In one of those odd coincidences that this list throws up, today’s album is from Elastica who were fronted by Justine Frischmann who was half of a Britpop power couple with Damon Albarn and thus indirectly responsible for him writing two of the most self pitying and mawkish breakup songs of all time when they inevitably split up.

  Anyhoo, as the saying goes this album is both good and original. However, the parts that are good aren’t original and vice versa. Albarn makes a guest appearance on this on a couple of tracks and was caught out shamelessly ripping off a riff from Wire on the track Connection. The non-Albarn tracks are a bit better, but there are clear similarities to the New York punk sound of the Ramones and especially Blondie on the track Vaseline.

  As with Blur, I really wanted to like this, but in the end it swung and missed for me.

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  Formative Albums

  Dylan

  Unquestionably the best "Britpop" album.