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Stand Upright In A Cool Place

Dodgy

Stand Upright In A Cool Place

The first album in over a decade by this power pop trio, who came to prominence in the Britpop era

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6.1

Label
Strike Back
UK Release date
20/02/2012
US Release date
28/02/2012
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  1. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The songs blend sun-drenched harmonies and spine-tingling guitar solos to emerge something like a fusion of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Fleet Foxes and the Isley Brothers
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  2. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Winsome folk-rock harmonies of an American flavour, imbued with a gentle melancholy and the warmth of hard-won experience
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Dodgy wear their newfound emotional heft well. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Britpop veterans' grown-up return. Print edition only

  5. 6.0 |   Q

    This is the sound of Dodgy still proudly waving their freak flag high. Print edition only

  6. 4.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    They do inevitably sound like a band thrown out of their epoch into a world that’s moved on
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  7. 4.0 |   musicOMH

    Not so much a new dawn for Dodgy as more like the final setting of their sun
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  8. 4.0 |   NME

    Only on the thundering ‘Raggedstone Hill’ do they visit former glories
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