Hope you like swing rhythms…

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Iain Mew: When I saw a free outdoor pop event in Rome recently where Dear Jack were crowd favourites, their heartthrob qualities were to the fore, but it was also obvious that they had a song with instant appeal. They borrow heavily from the Doctor Who + Blondie groove of Muse’s “Uprising,” but turning that song’s best bit into a chorus is a smart move, and they do a better job of evenly spreading the dramatic intensity too.
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Brad Shoup: The grand gestures get to me. Alessio Bernabei’s got a kind of untechnical swoop: he has the pipes, but can’t slide between notes. The strings promise one kind of grandiosity, but it’s a feint. The martial shuffle takes over. Bernabei gets to howl (against what sounds like a theremin), but Dear Jack’s banking on the groove.
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Juana Giaimo: Not even the last “hey hey”‘s could save this song. 
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Scott Mildenhall: Muse. It sounds like Muse. If helmed by a man with even more theatrical tendencies than Matt Bellamy. Theatrical Muse is the best kind of Muse, as the reflection of “Strict Machine” in the mirror this holds toward “Uprising” attests, but only when done well. Whirly tube noise to vocal, this is, exactly the level of performance a song called “Rain Is a State Of Mind” from an album called “Tomorrow Is Another Movie (Part One)” deserves.
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Katherine St Asaph: Tolerance of Panic! at the Disco is a state of mind. Extra point because I don’t speak enough Italian to know whether the lyrics are bilge.
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Kat Stevens: I am intrigued how the particular subset of Italian music videos I’ve encountered (admittedly mostly Eurovision entries) take place in high-ceilinged but sparsely-furnished rooms. I don’t know what the Italian equivalent of late Victorian/early Edwardian decorating is – Vittorian? Emmanuelleian? Let’s say Neo-Classical even though I swear I walked down a bunch of streets in Rome called Via Vittorio Emanuele and zero streets called Via Neo-Classicale, but whatever it’s called, here it’s completely inappropriate for this spooky, light-hearted indie schaffel-bounce, which should be located in Count Duckula’s castle, i.e. GOTHIC REVIVAL.
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