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The Tubs: Cotton Crown review – a blistering, joy-to-heartbreak masterpiece
The London-based Welsh rockers follow up their great 2023 debut with more supercharged guitar, vintage songcraft – and a devastating conclusion
At heart, these Welsh Londoners are a rousing DIY punk band, albeit as skilful at channelling Johnny Marr filigree (courtesy of guitarist George Nicholls) and anthemic indie rock as they are vintage songcraft. Deliciously, frontman Owen ‘O’ Williams’s sonorous voice also recalls that of folk rock hero Richard Thompson, adding to the pile-up of guitar history supercharged on this swift, superb record. A blistering eight-song run of relationship angst and romantic self-revelation is followed by a sucker punch: Strange, a rug-pulling track about how awkwardly people behaved after Williams’s mother’s suicide (“I found out the method from an article in WalesOnline”).
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