Devil On The Wind - Men They Couldn't Hang (The)

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...The Men They Couldn't Hang have always been a band that are difficult to define in the scheme of things. More a rock band employing folk style than the other way round, too straight for the traveller crowd, too progressive for the folk purists and too obscure to reach the main stream they have hung about in the musical ether for twenty odd years, and a bet most of you reading this have never heard of them. Rising from a collection of small time bands and buskers from London's squat scene TMTCH have been knocking out original and unequalled albums for years and in many peoples opinion, mine included, their defining moment came with 1988's Waiting for Bonaparte. The combination of the punch caricature of Wellington that graces the cover and the song titles themselves give you an idea of where these boys are coming from. But they are no... Read review

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...an amusing tale of working your way around France and eventually getting deported. Its difficult to say what is missing from this album that causes it not to make the grade. The band sound the same and te album contains the usual energy and drive. It might be that what made the Men stand apart was that historical setting the songs were draped in. It could be that some of the songs just arnt as good as previous efforts. Its still a great album but there are a few fillers, where as before you were safe in the knowledge that a TMTCH album was wall to wall class. But I suppose you can expect every album to set the world on fire. The music is still great, guitar based folk tinged rock enhanced where required by fiddle, trumpets, mandolins and even bazouki. They remain, however, a rock band acknowledging folk music and not the other way round... Read review

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