There’s endless amounts of mid 00’s indie landfill for us to sort through on Broken Records, as you might well imagine, and that’s the territory we find ourselves in yet again, as Steve and Remfry hold their collective breath and dive head-first into The Twang and their 4th full-length studio album Neon Twang.

Released in March 2014, Neon Twang faced a fairly apathetic reaction from the general public whose appetite for paper thin, non-descript and utterly soulless chav-indie had (thankfully) quelled significantly at this point. It was a far cry from the band’s early days when they were hailed by the NME as ‘Britain’s Best New Band’ on the cover of the 31st March 2007 edition of the magazine. A couple of months later, their debut album Love It When I Feel Like This received 6/10 in the very same magazine (déjà vu anyone?), hardly a critical mauling but a score that is somewhat baffling given NME’s cover proclamation just weeks before.

As is sometimes the case with this indie landfill stuff, wavering critical opinion seems a large part of the reason why Neon Twang has found its way onto Broken Records and whilst neither Steve nor Remfry are going to bend over backwards to hand out platitudes to The Twang, the question remains … does Neon Twang really deserve the critical appraisal that it received?

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