Here's David Quantick's sterling review of The End Of The Pier in this month's Uncut (which may have got 100 Times and Boots mixed up in press):
THE
DISTRACTIONS
The End Of The
Pier
OCCULTATION
9/10
That’s
32 years between albums… but worth the wait
“We’re
running out of time” are the first, perhaps apt words sung on the first
Distractions album since Nobody’s Perfect (1980). But if great pop is
made of sad songs set to happy tunes, The Distractions are still a perfect pop
group; while there’s melancholy in abundance, there’s also thunder in “The
Summer I Met You”, glorious melody on “100 Times”, and even country soul on
“Boots”. Singer Mike Finney and guitarist Steve Perrin sound fresh-minted on
songs informed by years of experience; which may be why, in the powerfully
honest “Wise”, they’ve made the best song about a long-standing
friendship/musical partnership I’ve ever heard.
DAVID QUANTICK
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