NME - Joe Louis
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By rights, the 90's generation of Northern indie-rock gods should have run out of steam by now. There are plenty of mid life crises out there, buried under costly string sections, but Squire appears to be an exception. Stepping out behind his guitar (which he guillotines in the video), the former Roses fret-head comes on like a frothing poet escaping from Guitar Workshop Hell. In a pleasingly curdled accent, he spits lyrics about climbing mountains and pre-war heavywieght boxers over the kind of tumbling riffs not heard since peak-period Roses. The re-born, railing, fiery and focused Squire is one old heavyweight the new contenders don't need to elbow from the ring.



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