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Type:
CD Single

Release Date:
22/10/07

Number of Discs:
1

Tracks:
1. Keep Yours
2. Keep Yours (Kleerup Remix)
3. Keep Yours (Pacific! Remix)
4. Souvenirs

Bonus Content:
None

Producer:
Jaari Haapalainen

Label:
Licking Fingers

Catalogue Number:
LFS027

Other Releases:
The Concretes,
In Colour.

Similar Releases:
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Pete Bjorn & John - Writers' Block

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The Concretes - Keep Yours | 21-10-2007 23:30

It all looked a bit grim when Bergsman left, didn’t it? But we needn’t have worried. Whereas previous album ‘In Colour,’ for all its fine moments, seemed like a family photograph full of forced smiles – an exercise in strained, enforced jollity, where the sunshine and joy of its predecessor suddenly seemed a little contrived and unwieldy, ‘Keep Yours,’ a highlight from current album ‘Hey Trouble’ is happy to be a little darker. Only a little, mind, there’s still the same trademark Concretes walls of harmony, they haven’t suddenly become Joy Division. But the lyrical mood’s different, and there’s a little more of an edge in the instrumentation, coupled to a few more minor chords than we’ve heard before. The overall effect is that ‘Keep Yours’ spiritually and tonally resembles, abstractly and distantly, but undeniably, the Concretes’ best song, their cool, dark cover of the Stones’ ‘Miss You.’ With a full complement of shiny remixes, and a rather spiffy B-Side, ‘Keep Yours’ is better than anything the Concretes did on ‘In Colour’, with the exception of the marvellous ‘Chosen One,’ and a match for much of their self-titled debut.

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