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The Cribs's previous album.
Johnny Marr, the most brilliant guitarist of the 1980s, continues to expand his repertoire and move forward. Marr has had the sort of career one might most envy, one that began with an artistic apex but one that he has not rested on. Someone else might have done just that, sat back on the brilliant parts he’d written on the various Smiths albums, by general acclimation some of the greatest of all time – songs like “This Charming Man,” “What Difference Does It Make?,” “The Queen is Dead,” and “Stop Me if You Think that You’ve Heard This One Before” resonate even today.
However, instead of doing so, Marr moved on to collaborations with Bernard Summer of New Order and the Pet Shop Boys in the band Electronic, put out a quite respectable blues-rock album with the Healers, worked on albums by Chrissy Hynde and Bryan Ferry, and most recently joined Modest Mouse for the last project.
Although he continues his stint in Modest Mouse, he has now also joined with the singular British band The Cribs, whose melodic, punky sound already made a splash with tracks such as “Our Bovine Public” and “Women’s Needs.” It also further reveals the brilliant taste of the bandmembers of The Cribs, who covered “Bastards of Young” by the Replacements for a recent B-side and are showing that the 1980s remain alive, well, and progressing.
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