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My Sad Captains - Bad Decisions (Fortuna Pop)
UK release date: 4 June 2007
My Sad Captains - Bad Decisions

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Has the sun come out for this record or has the record come out for the sun? Whichever, as summer re-emerges from the grey haze, I can't get enough of My Sad Captains.

True, Captains are making inroads into the mainstream consciousness, but they're doing it with little in the way of condescension, keeping a sharp kind of pop virtue that lends this debut single its lush charm.

Bad Decision parps out of the gates in that memorable Boo Radleys-ish way and snakes around dusty Country back-roads with a sense of wonder that shimmers like silk. It's the sound of modern Americana re-discovering its place within the grounded sentiments of pop, emerging from dredges and skating the cliff edges to the tops of mountains. A hefty combination of subtlety and sentiment, The Captains' debut is pure gold.


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