Continuing our round-up of the terrific reviews that the Nobody's Perfect reissue received, here's the first of the music magazine reviews from Mojo. It's also the shortest, and least-effusive, albeit still quite positive. You can still pick up Nobody's Perfect 2CD and LPs from Occultation or Bandcamp (where the Occultation-administered 14-track download is also available).
The Distractions
⭐⭐⭐
Nobody's Perfect
MAN IN THE MOON. CD/LP
A 48-track, 2-CD reissue of "lost" Manchester band's 1980 debut.
"The missing link between Freddie And The Dreamers and The Fall," suggests Manchester photographer Kevin Cummins in the sleevenotes. More the Dreamers... It now seems anomalous that single Time Goes By So Slow (featured here) was released by Factory Records. Early Elvis Costello was the closest post-punk counterpart, but The Distractions stuck even closer to tremulous rock 'n' roll verities. This is manifest on a cover of 1961 Eden Kane hit Boys Cry. Something For The Weekend, meanwhile, suggests both Del Shannon and the Springsteen of Hungry Heart. Bespectacled Mike Finney is an unlikely frontman - almost a real-life John Shuttleworth - but his soul-strong voice is impassioned, while songs like (Stuck In A) Fantasy sound like unknown 1960s standards.
Roy Wilkinson
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