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The Guilty Office by Bats (Rock) (The) (CD, Jun-2009, Hidden Agenda Records) 
The Guilty Office by Bats (Rock) (The) (CD, Jun-2009, Hidden Agenda Records)

 
The Guilty Office by Bats (Rock) (The) (CD, Jun-2009, Hidden Agenda Records)

Release Date: Jun 2009
Format: CD
Record Label: Hidden Agenda Records
Genre: Rock & Pop
UPC: 795306509523
Product ID: EPID73014003
Description: After a couple years with no follow-up album, the Bats returned to action in 2005 with AT THE NATIONAL GRID, which seemed like it might be a one-off occurrence, and that they might choose go back into the hibernation they had been enscon...
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Track Listing
1. Countersign
2. Crimson Enemy
3. Broken Path
4. Like Water In Your Hands
5. Castle Lights
6. Two Lines
7. Satellites
8. Later On That Night
9. Steppin' Out
10. I Specialist, The
11. Guilty Office, The
12. Orchard, The

Details
Distributor:Redeye Music Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
After a couple years with no follow-up album, the Bats returned to action in 2005 with AT THE NATIONAL GRID, which seemed like it might be a one-off occurrence, and that they might choose go back into the hibernation they had been ensconced in for ten years. Thankfully for fans of their jangling, melancholy sound, the band re-grouped and returned with THE GUILTY OFFICE in 2009. Though they have a new label (Hidden Agenda), the band's seventh album sounds as if it could have been released anytime in the past 25 years the band has been making brilliant music. Sure, the sound is cleaner than on their earliest records, but the fundamentals are all still there. The propulsive drums, twangling basslines, crisply strummed rhythm guitar, and the plangent lead guitar form the backdrop for Robert Scott's autumnal songs that he and Kaye Woodward sing in sweetly fragile and human terms. It may be too much to ask, but the Bats could keep making records like this every couple years for another 25 years, but really there's no reason they shouldn't. Their sound will never grow tiresome; it only gets better with repeated use.

Editorial Reviews
From melodic, bobbing lead 'Countersign' to bucolic closer 'The Orchard', OFFICE is a comfortable, comforting listen, wonderful in its very familiarity.
Pitchfork

It's comfort music touched by human frailty, by a group that's outlasted the icons they've influenced, from Pavement to Belle and Sebastian.
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