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Speed Ballads >>
The sound of an idea being stretched beyond breaking point, Speed Ballads is an album too far for Republica. A couple of infectious hit singles--"Drop Dead Gorgeous", "Ready To Go"--had, for a while, obscured the fact that Republica were essentially Transvision Vamp without the entertaining interviews, but nothing on Speed Ballads offers the same sort of (even) fleetingly distracting sugar rush. Singer Saffron deserves slight credit for writing a lyric claiming "Fizzydrinks rot your brain" so soon after appearing in commercials for Pepsi, but that mildly amusing subversion does little to redeem an otherwise teeth-grindingly ordinary album. In the end, all that Speed Ballads offers is a lesson learnt the hard way by Sigue Sigue Sputnik and so many others of their ilk--that nothing dates so fast, and so badly, as this sort of self-conscious futurism. --Andrew Mueller
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