Deltasonic
2006
A Call And Response
About This Album
After two years' worth of singles and EPs, UK indie-dance kids the Longcut finally made their full-length debut with A Call and Response. The trio are from Manchester, so a certain resemblance to folks like New Order, Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses can perhaps be forgiven due to local influences, but most of A Call and Response sounds like full-on Factory Records revisionism. Not the cool, mopey post punk of early Factory Records, mind, but the Factory Records of the Hacienda years, when the drum machines were as plentiful as the drugs and it seemed like a fresh idea to mix synth-dance tracks with indie rock guitars. Arguably, this was indeed a good idea in, say, 1987. Two full decades later, songs like the mindlessly repetitive "Holy Funk" and the dirgey plod of "Transition" lack the same freshness. A decent pair of singles, the blatantly New Order-like "Vitamin C" and a spacey near-ballad called "A Tried and Tested Method," fare better than the rest of A Call and Response, but they're not quite enough to put the album over. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Track List (try tracks 2,3 and 6)

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