FOLLOWING on from the huge success of their first album, Mercury Music Prize-nominated Stars of CCTV, Hard-Fi are back with this great offering.
The overwhelming feeling listeners will get from Once Upon a Time in the West is that these lads from Staines really enjoy themselves. Their enthusiasm for the music they make shines through on every track.
It's hard to say exactly what genre of music Hard-Fi fall into, indie-rock would perhaps be the nearest, but the album flows so effortlessly through a variety of up-beat, anthem-style tracks, to more melodic songs where the lyrics stay true to the band's humble roots, that compartmentalising them would be a pointless activity.
Some of the more superior tracks include Suburban Knights, which is currently being played to death by radio stations everywhere, Help Me Please, and Television, which is an unusual but hugely enjoyable track.
Hard-Fi definitely deserve a high five for this album.
HC
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