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British Sea Power: From The Sea To The Land Beyond

Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 December 2013

BRITISH SEA POWER'S rather schizophrenic identity has arguably been their commercial undoing. On one hand there's the indie group capable of writing songs with rousing choruses... but possessed of just too much strangeness and smart to really cross over into the territory occupied by the more mainstream groups who, as Roy Wilkinson's excellent Do It For Your Mum rockography painfully points out, often once them.

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