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The best new album I’ve heard this year: Being Dead’s When Horses Would Run reviewed

Punky surf guitar with complex, catchy melodies and an agreeably surreal sense of humour

issue 09 September 2023

Grade: A–

The point of a sudden, abrupt change in the time signature and instrumentation of a song is to surprise the listener and undermine his or her expectations. If, however, you do it in every song, then the point is lost, and the listener finds himself actually waiting for the weirdness
to begin.

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