Release Date: Mar 30, 2004
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Polydor / A&M
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Quiet may be the new loud, but these Scots-Irish whisperers have yet to benefit from the fashion for understatement that has worked wonders for Elbow and Turin Brakes. Three albums in, they have rethought their waif act, possibly prompted by leader Gary Lightbody's recent stint with the now-defunct Reindeer Section. If anything could turn a man into a rabid metalhead, it was those Glasgow tweemongers.
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