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4.0 out of 5 stars
The GN's second coming lives all in his title...by Paolo penco,an italian customer, 25 Jun 2008
Yes, this second coming album from Grand National,does not have the brilliance that was the former quality of the debut; four years ago,my dear, four years at our times are centuries...I don't think that they now don't sounds good vibrations,just their music is no more Police-junked,you can find ,today in "A Drink & A Quick.....",much more influences,and a certain downward spirit...How Many New Order,how much about Depeche Mode?...Silly Questions for me,the songs are irregular, a range from the bottom of the commercial tracks,but also a stairway to the top in shape of slo-funk and alternative.
I have an hope for all we need: a third album that can break up
definitively,giving us the sound masterpiece we ( the Fans) are waiting for so long...
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Patchy, and ultimately unfulfilling , 2 May 2008
As opening track Reason To Hide In slides its way along, expectations rise for Grand National's second album, A Drink & A Quick Decision. So much so that you begin to overlook the Hall & Oates inspired album title itself. It's really a rather good opener.
The problem is that too little of the album that follows matches up to that high standard.
It's not to say that there aren't other fantastic tracks on there, such as By The Time I Get Home... and the pop-tastic New Space To Throw, but there's an awful lot that is difficult to detest, but very hard to fall in love with. It also gets rather depressingly similar as the album progresses.
It's one thing to ape the likes of New Order but when you come up with something as, well, average as this you're really setting yourself up for a fall.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
a grower?, 11 Mar 2008
Although the only track I'd heard by Grand National prior to getting 'A Drink And A Quick Decision' was the Sasha remix of 'Talk Amongst Yourselves', I thought that a band from the noughties that sounded like a band from the eighties would be right up my street. However, I've got to admit, that after listening to the cd through twice, I find it a bit well, erm, dull. It's not a bad album-indeed there are some great tracks-it's just that there's an air of lethargy hanging over the album (the band only really unleash the funk on two tracks, 'By the Time I Get Home There Won't Be Much of a Place for Me' and 'Close Approximation'), and, to my ears, it all ends up sounding rather samey. However, if you're a fan of Hot Chip, Junior Boys or Erlend Oye, you'll probably love it.
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