Cinematic Britrock
Following the massive success — at least in Britain — of their Stars of CCTV debut, Hard-Fi’s four ambitious suburbanites use the Clash’s reggae/dub tendencies as the foundation for building a more cinematically orchestrated pop music. But singer Richard Archer sounds as much like Mick Jagger as Joe Strummer, and the band works in bits of punk and electronic dance rock, as well as some American soul and string arrangements that would make Ennio Morricone proud. Perhaps that combination’s a bit too identifiably British to conquer the rest of the Western world, but Anglophiles far and wide should be willing to throw their hands up in surrender.
>>Sample: Suburban Knights, I Shall Overcome, Can’t Get Along (Without You)
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