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The Loungs - Limited Edition 7" vinyl
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Chubby Checker
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The Loungs in NME again...on the NME stereo. 
The Loungs
I'm Gonna Take Your Girl
Akoustik Anarkhy
Superior soft rock with a sexy sneer, courtesy of that rock'n'roll hotbed, St Helens.
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DTL
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Fuck Off!
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Chubby Checker
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neigh tway chops..
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ste
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all your love-like it alot-good work!
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"SUPERIOR SOFT ROCK WITH A SEXY SNEER" - NME
"SKEWED AND LONESOME POP GUARANTEED TO GET ANY FANZINE DISCO JUMPING" - THE FLY
"A HOOK-LADEN, UPBEAT GEM OF A TUNE" - ARTROCKER
"WONKY HARMONIOUS POP" - FACT
"FEISTY DEBUT SINGLE FROM THE HAIRY PSYCH-POPPERS" - MUSIC WEEK
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lasthexaudio
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| Quote: | GLASSWERK.CO.UK
This is a "faint heart never won fair maiden" endorsing, soulful and jazzy sojourn into the world of a clear and concise St. Helens six piece. A cosmic feel attaches itself to their debut single to make it elevating and relaxing, indubitably aided by the diverse accompaniment.
A bubbly and bouncy 90 second offering ‘Seen My Baby Dancing’ possesses the harmless frivolity of the Beach Boys, to make for a warm and friendly introduction to this coated outfit. I am sure we will be seeing a lot more of them. |
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lasthexaudio
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AVAILABLE IN HMV + KALEIDOSCOPE RECORDS IN ST.HELENS FROM TODAY.
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lasthexaudio
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ArtRocker - www.artrocker.com
The Fly - www.the-fly.co.uk
NME - www.nme.com (Not really a review, but nice all the same)
A review.
Music Week - www.musicweek.com (Same as above...)
Fact - www.factmagazine.co.uk
Not actually out yet but this is what they've said...
| Quote: | THE LOUNGS - I’M GONNA TAKE YOUR GIRL - (aA)
Dexys, Madness and the Beach Boys collectively cum into a test tube in
St Helens. Years later the grown-up sons gather, smile knowingly and
lift a leg to fart out two brassy blasts of wonky harmonious pop with a
stink of booze, pies and uproar that rarely smelled better.
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Glasswerk - www.glasswerk.co.uk
| Quote: | This is a "faint heart never won fair maiden" endorsing, soulful and jazzy sojourn into the world of a clear and concise St. Helens six piece. A cosmic feel attaches itself to their debut single to make it elevating and relaxing, indubitably aided by the diverse accompaniment.
A bubbly and bouncy 90 second offering ‘Seen My Baby Dancing’ possesses the harmless frivolity of the Beach Boys, to make for a warm and friendly introduction to this coated outfit. I am sure we will be seeing a lot more of them. |
The Sun - www.thesun.co.uk
| Quote: | | Psychedelic pop newcomers The Loungs are a six-piece sensation whose catchy upbeat new single is a delight to the ears. 4/5 |
Teletext -
| Quote: | | Debut by ex PS Demo faves that shows what happened when Gruff Rhys fronted Belle & Sebastian for a day, pulling Nina Persson on the way home VERDICT 8/10 |
Losingtoday - www.losingtoday.com
| Quote: | | Been well to long since we had anything by the Akoustik Anarkhy crew to rave about and hang out the bunting for but just like the London buses wait around for hours a two turn up at once in quick succession. ‘I’m gonna take your girl’ is the debut twin pronged offering from a young St Helens based sextet by the name of the Loungs (pronounced the Lungs). Perhaps best summed up as the best thing we’ve had the pleasure of hearing since that ‘Brighten Up’ debut by Jumbo from a few years back (whatever happened to them?) if only for the fact that it’s so unlike anything currently in our listening range. ’I’m gonna take your girl’ is delicately drawn, in fact so delicately drawn you’re almost put on a back foot waiting for the calamitous sucker punch to rear from nowhere and connect with your lughole sending you into shock induced convulsions. It never happens though. Instead something quite unassuming emerges almost like a whisper on a soft breeze, a naked vocal accompanied by a lazily spun guitar deftly plucked and loosely re-arranging the coda from the Stones’ ’Paint it Black’ or so it initially seems begins to unfurl softly and tenderly, soon paraded by keyboards, a roving bass and a gentle percussive flutter. Then when the waiting and patience wears thin the brass arrives with it’s enviable ‘fuck you’ attitude with all the unfettered charisma and strutting air of Dexy’s ’Dance Stance’. Top stuff. Flipping over the disc for the brief but kooky jive-tastic (we missing something here?) ‘Seen my baby dancing’ - kind of an old school Saturday night TV cabaret routine involving the Rubettes, several rounds of ale, some twat in a flat cap, a Beach Boys song book with Elf Power armed with a big ladle stirring up a strangely wonky brew. A winner of course. |
Rockmidgets.com - www.Rockmidgets.com
| Quote: | | The Loungs are an odd prospect. For a start, what's a loung? They're not, as I originally thought, named after a number of living rooms (That's Lounge, isn't it? - Ed.). Secondly, their music is, erm, different to say the least. 'I'm Gonna Take Your Girl' spans about 17 genres in two and a half minutes. It starts out as a vaguely psychedelic ramble with echoes of 'Scarborough Fair' and it meanders along nicely with something that may or may not be a stylophone in the background. Then about halfway through, the song abandons this direction, the band shouts 'YOU FOOL!' and it morphs into a mad b*stard mental mariachi band before briefly going ska, then they throw in a guitar solo, then psychedelic mumblings resume and it goes full circle again, and the result is oddly compelling. In the midst of Arctic Monkeys fever, the Loungs are doing something truly different, and are definitely worth watching. Oh, and the B-side is even more nuts.. |
New-Noise.net - www.new-noise.net
| Quote: | | Considering that the singer of The Loungs sounds like a total dweeb, his repeated promise that he is going to take my girl from me sounds unlikely. Nonetheless, he delivers his one line with a modicum of flair, and his psychy, pompy rock flatters the discerning ear. The B-side, meanwhile, is 85 seconds of drunken bonkers, and as such portends great things for the band. Yes. |
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Chubby Checker
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ooh the silence....
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will
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not a lot to say. see yous tomorrow.
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Chubby Checker
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The single has almost sold out on its first day of release, so for the small percentage of you who give a fuck get shopping....
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ste
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Kool and the fuckin gang!
Well done fella's its a great track!
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AndyB
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Beautiful just beautiful.
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DTL
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Where the fuck were you Andy? I had to break a window in order to sleep on the floor of the studio.... Bad show...
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AndyB
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Ah!
Now I know were all the blood and snot came from. It will be used as evidence once it has been shaved and chiselled off the floor.
By the way there's a funny smell round here so if you could let me know were you did it I could get it removed.
Cheers
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DTL
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I killed a scally and threw him down the lift shaft.
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AndyB
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That's OK then. I was worried you'd shit in my office.
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DTL
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I thought your office was the boot of an old morris minor...
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AndyB
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Damn foiled again and I would have got away with it it if hadn't been for those pesky kids.
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