{"id":20471,"date":"2022-11-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20471"},"modified":"2022-11-14T17:46:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:46:58","slug":"the-speedways-talk-of-the-town-snap-records-hurrah-musica-beluga-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20471","title":{"rendered":"The Speedways – ‘Talk Of The Town’ (Snap!! Records, Hurrah Musica & Beluga Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If power pop is your thing, The Speedways are already on your radar. And with this, their third \u2018proper\u2019 album, I\u2019m running out of superlatives fast. Put simply, since \u2018Just Another Regular Summer\u2019, they haven\u2019t put a foot wrong. Quite how Matt and the boys come up with so many ear worms, I have no idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Dead From The Heart Down\u2019, from the first heartbeat, will have you hooked. It\u2019s like the first time I heard the debut album by The Jags, the attention to detail is fantastic, but it\u2019s the tunes that stay with you. \u2018Secret Secrets\u2019 is the kind of song that I wish Johnny Marr would write, the guitars weaving between the sweet backing vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Shoulda Known\u2019 is one of my favourite songs this year, another that should be on the radio. Here comes the key change\u2026classic. 1979 was an amazing year for pop music, and The Speedways, while not chained to the past, have absorbed the very best bits of the era to create essentially timeless pop songs. \u2018A Drop In The Ocean\u2019 starts with a Kinks \u2018So Tired\u2019 which wrongfoots you before the song proper begins. Another slice of romantic pop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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