More City Sadness
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Record Label: Black Cottage
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Craig Bennett's songs make you want to hole up in a dimly-lit room by yourself, just you and your cigarettes, and cry slow silent tears. Not because his songs are sad, but because they're so effortlessly beautiful, so lush and compelling, so immaculately conceived and written and sung, that you feel yourself succumbing to their just-slightly-moody undertow, letting the air leave your body and allowing the pellucid guitars, the wistful keyboard-fabricated violins and the Brit-inflected vocals surround you. Without being wimpy or sappy, Craig Bennett's songs are so delicately pristine, you know that he has written songs that you would write if you could only find the words.
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author: Omar Perez Altar Native (Miami, FL)
Bennett's blend of coffeehouse psychedelia and British pop shines even on the darkest of days, and poems-turned-lyrics throw a left curve... Orchestral strings add a larger-than-life sound to the mix, making More City Madness something worth anyone's attention."
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author: Noah Wane, Splendid E-zine
Craig Bennett is a kind of cross between catchy Brit-pop and pensive American indie rock circa early REM. Jaunty rhythms, punchy drums, catchy choruses, breathy vocals, dour demeanor and the occasional string part combine to make the effect. Clever lyrics abound.
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author: Beta Music (Singapore)
“More City Sadness” is a luscious pop record … newcomer Craig Bennett stitches his keen eye for scenes of urban decay to portraits of emotional ennui. Vocal-wise he comes across like a cross between a young David Bowie and Luke Haines of the Auteurs, and although the record never quite rocks as hard as the first Suede album, the froth that rises to the top of the brew is pungent and disorientating, in a glam-tastic way, of course.
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author: Cindy Wong, Pop Culture Detox (San Francisco, CA)
It is always a pleasant surprise to find something instantly likeable. The music reminds me of a stripped down and less whiny Suede mixed with a slower tempo Stone Roses. Those more inclined to the British music scene should definitely check this album out.
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