Pablo Honey cover

Pablo Honey

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Given everything that followed after this album it’s almost like it’s a band with an alternate career that’s captured here, a UK quintet that thanks to a near-ubiquitous fluke hit of a single, the perfect alt rock melodrama of knowing self-pity that is “Creep,” might have become a one-hit wonder. Funny thing is that Pablo Honey, while a somewhat choppy listen, is still the work of a band that had been together for years already as teenagers, and songs like the riffing snark of “Anyone Can Play Guitar” and the rather poisonous ballad “Lurgee” showed their talent.

Ned Raggett

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