The Len Price 3 - Pictures (From Salisbury Journal)

The Len Price 3 - Pictures

10:45am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

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Artist - The Len Price 3
Album - Pictures
Label - Wicked Cool

Another revisit to older times, Len Price 3 take the period when the Beatles made pop records, and The Kinks threw out radio-friendly single after single.

No one in the band is called Len Price, oddly, as it suggests the band chose the name to refer back to a golden 60s period. The way that the record sounds mirrors that – there seems to have been too great an attempt to make it sound as though it could be an uncovered 60s gem.

The Kent trio do mix in some nice The Who, Squeeze-y, Jilted John cockernee punk, and the 13 tracks come in around the half hour mark, so no song outstays its welcome.

Signed to Steve Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool label (Van Zandt has a strong view that music has been downhill since 1970, and that mono is where it is at), The Len Price 3 have recently been knocking out some stellar singles, which are front-loaded into this album – the rest feels like a valiant attempt to pad the 30 minutes.

Rating 7/10
Mike Rea

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