"Two more great songs from Stephen Maughan (the man who brought us Bulldozer Crash and Denver) and Geoff Suggett (ex-Lavender Faction!). This brings their total number of released songs to five, including their two-song debut 7" on Firestation Tower and "Was It You?" from a Motorway compilation 7". Both songs have a laidback feel, similar to the Sugargliders or later Biff Bang Pow! Very good stuff, but let's hope their output grows exponentially soon... MTQ=2/2"

The second is from one of our favourite online fanzines in love with these times, in spite of these times We are also doing an interview for this web site in the very near future.

"the lucksmiths' labelmates kosmonaut are from the north east of england, as under represented in this fanzine as everywhere else, so we can but attempt to redress the balance by observing that following the anthemic firestation tower debut "days of ourlives", the spunky cd-r "in my head" and the welcome resurrection of "was it you ?" on the matinée summer sampler, "desert song" is a serene pop gem which laments how the years flow past with the same inevitability and indecent haste as the sandy landscape flies by the driver's near-side window. subtle and building carefully until the keyboards propel it into a particularly cracking fourth minute, it is probably their strongest outing yet. on the other side "bee song", again careful not to move too fast, sucks the listener in from its opening chords, again with keyboards that seem to slowly emerge, shimmering with longing, and an arrangement which recalls "life goes on"-era bmx bandits (not the first band to do so this month, we know) until it is slightly disfigured by an overbearing guitar line towards the end. like some of that bandits' stuff, the vocals on this two-track 7" occasionally give little hint of being british rather than american, but this is still road music at its finest, and the lingering sentiments of "desert song" in particular hang long in the mind."

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