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Album Review : Extradition Order - Since The Bomb Dropped

Adopting their position in a curious middle ground between Echo and the Bunnymen, Black Sabbath and The HorrorsExtradition Order's post-punk psychedelia is loosely described by the Warrington trio as 'anti-folk'. Although, at 14 tracks it's arguably overlong, there are at least a handful of genuinely enduring ideas to be found within their first long-player. Towering, techno-borrowing basslines flirt wildly with samba-reminsicent percussion in 'Petrol Meets Matches' (a gothic doom-laden take on 'There Goes For Fear'), whilst morbid, ominous organs a la Deep Purple are abundant throughout the majority of proceeedings. Wildly playful, and largely coloured by the more gothic side of the UK guitar lineage, it's difficult to compute or pigeonhole on initial listens. White Lies it is not however.

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