The Electric Soft Parade Reviews
Muso’s Guide – 25th June 2013
By Rob Crozier June 25, 2013 The current lack of sun could play havoc with the long awaited return of Electric Soft Parade. They’ve produced an album so immersed in a feel-good summer vibe that you can’t help but think that if anything could produce an appearance of the big yellow fella, then…
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Mudkiss – Interview with Thomas White 24th June 2013
THOMAS WHITE: HEY, HEY WE’RE THE ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE – INTERVIEW BY ANDY BARNES Six years have passed between the release earlier this month of the self-deprecatingly titled ‘Idiots’ and The Electric Soft Parade’s last offering ‘No Need to be Downhearted’. In that time, the loss of a very close family member…
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MOJO – 22nd June 2013
“Brothers White locate their inner Teenage Fanclub” Thomas and Alex White spent eight years chasing the commercial success that so often doesn’t follow critical acclaim, eventually grinding to an exhausted halt after 2007’s No Need to Be Downhearted, an album that threw in the kitchen sink as one last desperate-sounding…
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Clash Music – 20th June 2013
9/10 It’s been more than a decade since the irresistible indie charm of ‘Empty At The End’ briefly made The Electric Soft Parade the next big thing. It wasn’t quite to be and, while brothers Alex and Thomas White have continued to put out music at infrequent intervals, fourth album ‘IDIOTS’…
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CMU Interview – 18th June 2013
Brothers Tom and Alex White last released an album as Electric Soft Parade in 2007, their third effort ‘No Need To Be Downhearted’. Since then, the prolific pair have worked on various other musical projects, returning slowly to ELP over the last two years. Now fully back up and running,…
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The 405 – 18th June 2013
7.5/10 To call a psych-pop album “derivative” would be to completely miss the point. However, it is also something that happens all the time. Bands that write in this style, for the most part, are not looking to change a whole lot about it, and while many non-fans are sure…
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Brighton Music Blog – 10th June 2013
The opening song from the new Electric Soft Parade album sneaks in the line “And now it’s back to work / as if I never left”, but while it’s been seven years since No Need To Be Downhearted came out the White brothers never quite got around to leaving. Since…
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Mud Kiss – June 2013
Almost inconceivably, it’s been six year since the last album appeared by The Electric Soft Parade and much has apparently changed over that period of time for one of Britain’s most underrated of bands. “Idiots” showcases a more stripped back approach to 2007’s “No Need to be Downhearted,” which verged…
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Mail On Sunday – 16th June 2013
**** ‘Now it’s back to work, as if I never left,’ sing the absurdly talented White brothers, acknowledging a six-year quiet spell. The single Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone, glides along on a Bacharachian melody; The Corner Of Highdown And Montefiore builds to crashing heights; and Never Again…
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This Is Fake DIY
7/10 There are few more heart warming pleasures than hearing a new record from a much-loved band who were previously assumed to be on something of a hiatus. It’s been six years since The Electric Soft Parade’s ’No Need To Be Downhearted’; the intervening years having seen solo projects, personal…
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NME – 15th June 2013
6/10 Returning after an electric soft hiatus of six electric soft years, The Electric Soft Parade are electric soft back! ‘Idiots’ initially invites a description – winsome, sparkling, Beatles-y – that sets alarm bells ringing, but the album thrives when the brothers White play to their strengths. These include restrained…
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Daily Express – 14th June 2013
Brighton brothers Alex and Thomas White reconvene their band after a six-year break, rejuvinated after gigs celebrating their tenth anniversary of Mercury nominated debut Holes In The Wall. And they return with a truly sunny disposition. Summertime In My Heart and The Sun Never Sets Around Here highlight their harmonies,…
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