Album Review: Once Upon A Time In The West by Hard-Fi

Review Summary: Staines indie-rockers aim to impress, but only succeed sporadically.It's perhaps a backhanded compliment to say that it's easy to feel something, whatever it is, towards Hard-Fi. The time that they arrived amidst the overcrowded British post-punk revival was either perfect or terrible, depending on how you view things; they arrived too late to be considered innovators or originals, but early enough to beat their nearest rivals into the charts. Hard-Fi's tales of living in a modern British inner-city, surrounded by drunks and druggies, was innovative for all of 4 months in 2005, until they were thoroughly usupred from the limelight by the Arctic Monkeys in January 2006.

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