The Fratellis Costello Music (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] 6/17/2003

The Fratellis Costello Music (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] 6/17/2003On their energetic and assured full length debut, COSTELLO MUSIC, the Fratellis offer up a charmingly mischievous set of guitar driven Britpop. Like rowdier cousins of the Kooks, these Scottish lads clearly look for inspiration to 1970s glam icons such as Marc Bolan and David Bowie (see the hard charging, T. Rex like "Flathead" and the stomping "Chelsea Dagger"), but they also indulge in whimsical Beatlesque ditties (most notably the lighthearted

Not far beneath the surface of their self-admitted sloganeering lies a deeply complex and brutally relevant album that chews up cliches and spits them out as high art for the masses

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2 Hitchin' a Ride

2" takes the Kid's theme song and allows Kendrick Lamar to run with it

Engineers include: Matt Hyde

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may I waste your time

and songs like "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (a tongue-in-cheek history of the E Street Band) provide humor

The anthemic "Human" is a case in point