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Album Review: Joeys Coop - Service Station Flowers

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"It's a bunch of blokes knowing what they're doing, and having a fine time doing it."

It's music of a different time, as a twin guitar frontline spirals and intertwines.

But when your guitarists are Died Pretty's Brett Myers and Matt Galvin (Eva Trout, a bunch more), you play to your strengths. Mark Roxburgh — of similarly venerated Decline Of the Reptiles — is the keening vocal to fit with a muscly melodicism that never quite becomes a jangle. There's a country-ish feeling at points, like the title track's apology. As Management Plan has it they've "…been down this road before, but it's part of who I am." Add Wayne Connelly's crystalline production, and it's a bunch of blokes knowing what they're doing, and having a fine time doing it.