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Album Review: #1 Dads - About Face

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It could do without the songs featuring guest vocals.

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This is the second solo record from Tom Iansek from Big Scary, and carries on the polished, vaguely detached vibe of their last record, Not Art, although it’s low-key and beautiful in a more touchable way. However, it could do without the songs featuring guest vocals. Iansek fits his sound around their voices, particularly on the bluesy, boring So Soldier with Ainslie Wills, and it’s kind of a bummer as his own voice, with its magic balance of sexy vulnerability, works so well with his music’s cold intimacy. You miss that when someone else takes the spotlight.