"Exciting powerful rhythm"
author: Vicente Zumel
Exciting powerful rhythm combining, shuffles, a little bit of funk and an amazing gift, is what you will find on this excellent 'Play The Game' CD.
Mat does an electrifying overpowering work with "The Moochers", displaying all his singing and harp playing abilities.
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"..a good album with its own personality"
author: Rune Endal
Translated from Norwegian. They solely do their own material, which is of a good standard. On "Never Get far" they sound like Dire Straits on a good day and they also have a good few other tunes on this album which has an "English sound". This is a good album with its own personality.
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"Andy Pyatt's guitar playing is of the highest standard"
author: Blues In Britain
Andy Pyatt's guitar playing is of the highest standard and nowhere better than on the title cut "Play The Game". The gently simple "Smiling Face" shows a different side to Mat's vocal ability.
It's easy to overlook Mat's versatility on the harmonica that gets partly obscured by the standard of the song writing. His songs have something to say, yet not at the expense of having a good time and enjoying the high musical standard and inter-play of a tight, (and often augmented) quartet.
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"good singing, big,hot sound,"
author: Soulbag
(Translated from French) Good singing, big, hot sound, straightforward rhythm, this quartet assumes modernity and does not believe in changing their personality in sacrifice to "academic" exercises. The balance is strong, from start to finish, the themes are interesting.
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