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Glasvegas: It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry

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by Kev Kharas

This is standard Glasvegas fare – if you’ve heard anything the Scottish quartet have recorded so far, you’ll know the drill. Guitars, for the most part, find the right shimmering note and stick to it, while James Allan emotes in the drizzling reverb, sounding like a man trying desperately hard to make himself weep into his hops before the song’s four and a half minutes are up.

Hideously uncool, there’s nevertheless some charm about Glasvegas. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that this band can never, ever evolve – they’ve chipped away for years in Scottish bars just to open the briefest of windows to the past and they’re doomed to remain set on that course ‘til it closes, at which point they’ll either be sucked back through a vortex to the nascent suburbia of 1950s, ‘60s America or return to those Scottish karaoke bars. That the b-side's called ‘Be My Baby’ seems to condemn them to a bitter fate - if you listen closely you can hear the window softly nudging shut and the sharp chatter of the karaoke bar cutting rudely through the reverb.

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  • Glasvegas 6 / 10

I LIKE IT A LOT

Think this stuff might get a bit much over the course of a whole album though. I don't expect them to last, but right now they are putting out classic singles


I'm

as yet unconvinced by Glasvegas, they are quite good, and have a certain charm, but it feels like they're holding back at times, plus the lyrics to this song are terrible.


10/10 for me.

seriously, probably the best song i've heard in the last 12 months.


The B-side

Is it not called "Be My Baby" because it's a cover version of the very well known Ronettes song which was produced by Phil Spector, to whom Glasvegas appear to be disciples?


DDDDOHHHH!!!!!1

I never noticed the Ronettes vid!!!! I thought from the tone of the review that our scribe here was oblivious to them! A-forgiveness please!


I can never forgive you.

No, not now


Yeah this singles not great

sounds like they are trying to redo daddys gone. Seems like they have already pidgeonholed themselves.





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