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Casino Royale
words by Stuart Stubbs
Call the cops! Or, what with this being cartoon anti-popstar Kid Carpet, get Toy Town’s finest on the phone at the very least. Because this Fisher Price wally is growing up, and surely that was never meant to happen. A vast improvement on hit and miss (and miss again) debut ‘Ideas And Oh Dears’, ‘Casino Royale’ remains a primary-coloured electro pop sing-a-long for the playground but tracks like the opening, lurking comedown of ‘Hitting The Wall’ (think The Happy Mondays doing new romantic synth-tronica on a paranoid speed setting) see KC kicking his creative ball against the wall of a the upper sixth common room, and not his previous Wendy House. There’s still plenty of nonsense to skip but as ‘I Don’t Want To Fall In Love With You’ comes on like a trainee Jamie T’s ‘Calm Down Dearest’ there’s plenty to revisit also.7/10 in stores June 30
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