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"Debut release on hip label Kids for Sheffield troubadour Neil McSweeney. 'Postcards' begins with a brooding guitar and muttered vocals, a la Tindersticks, before sweeping into an earnest, chiming chorus upwards and onwards to dizzying Velvets-eque heights, upon which Mcsweeney belts his maudlin lungs out. It's great! Musically, the B side 'My Design' evokes the material George Harrision put out in the 70s. But lyrically there's no spiritual element to this, quite the opposite. McSweeney's tuneful atheism croons "Wake Up. Wake Up. There's nothing up above. No-ones gonna rise again." It is an oddly uplifting experience."
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