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Album Review: Paul Dempsey - Shotgun Karaoke

While there’s a couple of moments of shameless cheese (the sung ‘instrumental’ in Queen’s I Want To Break Free, for example), even this is divine.

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Going from glam rock to indie Aussie mongrel to alt-country to '80s pop and beyond, here's collected proof that Paul Dempsey's voice and ears know few bounds. While there's a couple of moments of shameless cheese (the sung 'instrumental' in Queen's I Want To Break Free, for example), even this is divine. The only bum note comes from iTunes which offers only ten tracks rather than the CD's 11 (Archers Of Loaf track Web In Front is missed), although getting to the end was difficult as this writer's repeat button keeps sticking on Berlin Chair and Jesus Etc. Ah, Paul, you can rely on me honey.