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The Automatic - Recover (Polydor)
UK release date: 18 September 2006
The Automatic - Recover

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How do you follow a monster hit like, er, Monster? Certainly not by attempting more of the same, and happily that's a trap the Automatic avoid with room to spare.

Most of us have been there - the morning after feeling. "I have this bad taste in my mouth" sings Rob Hawkins, presumably referring to that old sock masquerading for a tongue. Ian Broudie's production yields a surprisingly sombre verse with sparse accompaniment, and the Automatic appear to have retreated into themselves.

But then the big chorus - and as you reach for the painkillers, the echoed refrain of "get (get) up (up), recover" proves to be surprisingly catchy and uplifting, a musical hair of the dog. By the end you're up and dancing again, ready for action as the band career into the song's coda. Two high profile singles down and two catchy records. You can't say fairer than that.


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