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Chivalry
words by Sam Walton
If you sing in curious Australio-yankee accents and pinch riffs off Jack White and the MC5, you’d better do it with some gusto or you’ll just end up sounding a bit tepid. Or worse, like Jet. This would be sage advice to offer The Scare. Their debut effort attempts to ape Nick Cave at his most smouldering, and occasionally they flicker with the bloodcurdling thrill of their fellow countryman, but unfortunately the majority of ‘Chivalry’ is pretty tired, bog-standard rawk.
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