Hefner - We Love The City Album Rob Dix	Having studied at the Belle & Sebastian college of sensitive semi-acoustic heartfelt musings, Hefner release their 3rd proper long-player to what will be probably mass indifference on the part of the global music scene, but utter euphoria for a certain minority. This minority is made up of people like Hefner's Darren Hayman. The quiet one daydreaming at the back of the class, the thoughtful one turning their frustrations into poetry rather than graffiti, the fragile one crying over a broken heart. The record is a concept album of sorts, a collection of songs about living and loving in London, or any big city. But more importantly it's a collection of feelings, performed mostly on acoustic instruments and recorded in a live environment, not letting over-production get in the way of the songs themselves. Single 'Good Fruit' is an infinitely catchy low-key ballad, which could be soaringly epic if that wouldn't betray the whole point of it. 'The Day That Thatcher Dies' is an upbeat brass-led political rant, and 'The Greedy Ugly People' is made for the radio, about those who "don't feel the love that she and I would die without". By Hefner's standards this isn't one of their best efforts, but if you've not heard them before it's as good a point to start as any. If you don't like Belle & Sebastian or you don't like a healthy helping of wistful twee in your music, then don't bother. But if you're the quiet, thoughtful one that takes relationships far too seriously, you may well relate to this. As 'The Greedy Ugly People' says, "Love don't stop no wars, don't stop no cancer. It stops my heart." Let Hefner start yours.
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