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Track List
01) Groundhog Day
02) Radio Nowhere
03) Turtle Dove
04) Numero Uno
05) Caught In The Summer Rain
06) Wall Around Your Heart
07) Victoria
08) Jonny Was A Friend Of Mine
09) Young For A Day
Cd 2
01) Big Big Life
02) Motorway
03) Independent
04) Misunderstood
05) Go Do What You Like
06) Time In Hand
07) Never Been That Close
08) Heavy Weather
09) Victoria (Acoustic)
01) Groundhog Day
02) Radio Nowhere
03) Turtle Dove
04) Numero Uno
05) Caught In The Summer Rain
06) Wall Around Your Heart
07) Victoria
08) Jonny Was A Friend Of Mine
09) Young For A Day
Cd 2
01) Big Big Life
02) Motorway
03) Independent
04) Misunderstood
05) Go Do What You Like
06) Time In Hand
07) Never Been That Close
08) Heavy Weather
09) Victoria (Acoustic)
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2:47
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First Released
2016
Indie Rock
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Rock/Pop
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The real-life equivalent to a band dropping a double album is someone taking a road trip with a new flame or friend – it’s a chance to show all the qualities worth sharing. However, flaws can reveal themselves with each track (or stay in a cramped hotel room). Indie rock band The Rifles’ Big Life never stray far from this parallel, but its track-by-track showcase of what a guitar can do in a sequence of a pop progression manages to upstage those flaws over the course of 18 tracks.
Barring some keyboard-dominated numbers during the album’s second half, the English quintet don’t miss a chance to deploy string scratches under lyrics, riffs between words and feedback, like on single ‘Wall Around Your Heart.’ On ‘Turtle Dove’ lead singer Joel Stoker croons “ain’t no need to hide”, and I half expected him to finish the phrase with “this infectious six-string display.” He doesn’t — but listeners still know where the best moments are less than a quarter of the way through the album. It’s a master-class display of guitar’s place in pop.
A few tracks, including ‘Turtle Dove’, embody common critiques of the double album, however, mirroring arrangements before them, lacking the lyrics expected in a collection of a band’s best. But Stoker has said the band decided just to throw all Big Life’s music on in order to appease a loyal, enthusiastic fan base 12 years in the making, and why not?
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The real-life equivalent to a band dropping a double album is someone taking a road trip with a new flame or friend – it’s a chance to show all the qualities worth sharing. However, flaws can reveal themselves with each track (or stay in a cramped hotel room). Indie rock band The Rifles’ Big Life never stray far from this parallel, but its track-by-track showcase of what a guitar can do in a sequence of a pop progression manages to upstage those flaws over the course of 18 tracks.
Barring some keyboard-dominated numbers during the album’s second half, the English quintet don’t miss a chance to deploy string scratches under lyrics, riffs between words and feedback, like on single ‘Wall Around Your Heart.’ On ‘Turtle Dove’ lead singer Joel Stoker croons “ain’t no need to hide”, and I half expected him to finish the phrase with “this infectious six-string display.” He doesn’t — but listeners still know where the best moments are less than a quarter of the way through the album. It’s a master-class display of guitar’s place in pop.
A few tracks, including ‘Turtle Dove’, embody common critiques of the double album, however, mirroring arrangements before them, lacking the lyrics expected in a collection of a band’s best. But Stoker has said the band decided just to throw all Big Life’s music on in order to appease a loyal, enthusiastic fan base 12 years in the making, and why not?
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