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Hard-Fi: Once Upon A Time In The West

Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 3 September 2007

IT'S A CLICHÉ but it's true. Second albums are difficult. And not just to make. The follow-up to an instant classic which has spent the last two years on heavy rotation can be hard to fully appreciate. Comparison is inevitable, as is the disappointment when nothing seems quite as instant or as classic as everything on the last one.

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