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The Rumble Strips - Girls And Weather
| Spin | | Crushing angst gets a bright, shiny makeover at the hands of this British foursome. Powered by blaring horns reminiscent of vintage ska and soul, Charlie Waller could be Billy Bragg's twitchy offspring, wailing with awesome fervor as he wallows in self-loathing ("No Soul") and turns the simple act of watching the sky into a meditation on doomed romance ("Clouds"). The Rumble Strips are so contagiously charged up that it's tempting to overlook their pathetic mind-set. When Waller exclaims, "The bells of doom are ringing," he sounds like he's entering party mode....full text |
| | Prefixmag | | In the U.K., The Rumble Strips are treated as something of an oddity. They’re seen as nothing more than a Dexy’s Midnight Runner’s knock-off, solely because Dexy’s are the only other ska band that ever really hit the mainstream there. In actuality, The Rumble Strips don’t even sound like a ska band (unless you count having a trumpet and a sax player in the same lineup); they sound like just about every other new-new Britpop band to hit BBC Radio 1 in the last five years, wiht bright sing-along choruses, fast, post-punk rhythms, and hyper-literal lyrics. Yet for all the common traits they share with their Britpop brethren, the Strips hold one trump card: the ability to speak to the common man, whether he be British, American, or Ethiopian....full text |
| | Nme | | OK, anyone who has read anything about them, seen them live, glanced at a photo of them, walked past them in the street or heard more than a three-second snippet of their music, will know that The Rumble Strips really, really, reeeeeally sound like Dexys Midnight Runners. If you don’t know Dexys, they’re the band who did wedding reception staple ‘Come On Eileen’ and whose singer Kevin Rowland went on to perform in a tackle-revealing wedding dress at the 1999 Reading Festival....full text |
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