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kerrang 1/98	melody maker 16/5/00		Pennyblackmusic Bands Night : Half Moon, London, 3/11/2012 Bromide’s more stripped-down trio approach belies some lovely indie-pop songs, particularly 'Hat to the Ride' off their new album 'Some Electric Sometime', though it’s a shame that they don’t play that album’s stand-out track, 'Small Rewards'. Bromide play the kind of unfashionable guitar pop that brings to mind the Only Ones (singer Simon Berridge’s voice even sounds like Peter Perrett’s drawl on 'Another Girl Another Planet') and literary British singer-songwriters such as Lloyd Cole and Robyn Hitchcock. Aware that they are something of an unknown quantity, frontman Simon Berridge quips at one point, “We’ve got CDs at the back that you can look at while filing out.” www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk

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