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Plate Six
- Battle Hymns for a New Republic
(One Little Indian)
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| Why is the sixth plate so important? Whilst playing ‘hide and seek’, did one of the band smash his mother’s sixth finest china plate (worth approximately $648) — resulting in a severe tongue lashing and imprinting on the young scamp's mind the emotional and financial value plate six will have forevermore? Probably not, but one should always bear these things in mind. |
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I was (easily) impressed by the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness inspired artwork on Battle Hymns for a New Republic, and hoped for something as inspired as that album. What emanated from my stereo after CD insertion neither dazzled nor disappointed me. The drone rock/post hardcore that Plate Six produces is technically superb; the key changes never occur where you expect them to, the chord changes are atypical and the vocals strain like a John Deere tractor tied to a mountain.
But there’s something missing from Battle Hymns for a New Republic, and I’m not quite sure what it is. Plate Six court disillusionment and anger as well as Planes Mistaken For Stars and Small Brown Bike, but somehow lack the ferocity of their peers. Perhaps it’s down to production more than anything else. What they need is an infamous ‘Spector Wall of Sound’. That’ll sort ‘em out nicely. |
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| Stuart Aiken - 6/10 |
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