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Known Associates: Penny Love

The dozen songs by Warren Cate that make up the ‘Penny Love’ album are unremarkable and rather flat sounding too. There’s no denying the musicians involved can play – Mike Franklin-Browne is one of the country’s great rock drummers – but this cod-rock/bar-room blues feels like something Cold Chisel would have been embarrassed to leave on the cutting room floor, for fear that it might be discovered. There’s not a single hook here – the songs have little to say lyrically or musically and Cate’s voice is a faux-American wannabe country-rock sound – again it’s deeply unremarkable. I can’t imagine anyone – apart from the band members, friends and family – being particularly interested in this. And the lack of songs could have been covered up if there was something happening sonically – but it’s flat as a pancake. No dynamics. Move on. Let’s hope the band does too.

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