White Lies are three 20-year-olds - Jack Brown (drums), Charles Cave (bass), Harry McVeigh (guitar, vocals). They purvey the sort of big music U2 and The Waterboys cut their teeth on. Some of their songs hearken back to the epic anthems of Scouse-rockers Echo & The Bunnymen and Teardrop Explodes. Or maybe they're closer to those early 80s groups like Tears for Fears who took the forbidding goth rock of Joy Division and turned it into commercial, brightened-up chart pop.

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When Tears for Fears sang, "Kick out the Style/Bring back the Jam, 'in 'Sowing the Seeds of Love', one can imagine the lads in Kaiser Chiefs raising their mugs of ale in agreement. Kaiser Chiefs resurrect the mod spirit of the Jam in 'I Predict a Riot', a supercharged class of '77 power pop that quickly electrified the British press when it was released in 2004. The song was inspired by Wilson's days as a club DJ in Leeds, England, where the group was also formed. The single and Kaiser Chiefs' pogo-induci...   [ read more ]

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Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears provides an excellent overview of the band's key tracks, including all their hit singles, beginning with tracks from their first album, The Hurting, and ending with tracks from the post-Curt Smith album Elemental. (Curt Smith, one-half the duo, left after 1989's The Seeds of Love). Tears for Fears already had one excellent hits package on the market, 1992's Tears Roll Down, but this set improves on that one by including all the tracks from tha...   [ read more ]

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