[4/5] It's kind of strange that Seafood open their album with "I Will Talk" and leadoff single "Signal Sparks," two waltz-time songs that start all moody and quiet before kicking into overdrive in their explosive choruses. But hey, it works. And so does damn near everything the band try on their first release since singer David Line's collapsed lung-from "Last Outpost," with its almost straight-up punk attack, to album-closing shocker, "How You Gonna Live Without Me?" a haunted folk-rock ballad with vocals by drummer Caroline Banks, and, of all things, a sax solo. "Awkward Ghost" recalls the Replacements in "Here Comes A Regular" mode, but the title cut-more Soul Asylum than 'Mats-is a more inspired stab at Minneapolis-style heartache from these veterans of the U.K. indie scene. (COOKING VINYL) Ed Masley
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