The Hangovers were a band formed by

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member,

Gina Birch Gina Birch is an English musician and filmmaker, best known as a founding member of post-punk rock band, the Raincoats. Born in Nottingham, Birch attended Nottingham High School for Girls, and later the Hornsey School of Art, where she formed ...

, along with former members of

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and

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History

As well as Birch the band also featured actor/composer

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(guitar, keyboards), Ida Akesson (keyboards, sampling), Phil Legg (keyboards),

member

John Frenett John Frenett is an English bassist, best known for his slippery dub-style playing in the bands Moonshake and Laika in the 1990s. He had formed The Hangovers with former The Raincoats member Gina Birch, and played bass and guitar on their debut a ...

(bass), Mary Deigan (bass), and former

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and Stereolab member Joe Dilworth (drums).Huey, Steve
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'', 2–9 July 1998. retrieved 11 November 2013 The band's debut single, "Soho", was one of the first releases on the re-established

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early in 1998 on the

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label. It received a four star rating from

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. Retrieved 11 November 2013 A departure from Birch's previous work with The Raincoats, Charles Taylor of the ''

'' described the album as containing "samples, keyboard twiddling, weird noises throughout, and a dark, echoey feel", and Peter Margasak of the ''

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'' noted Birch's "relentlessly bleak" lyrics.Margasak, Peter (1998)
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'', 22 October 1998. Retrieved 11 November 2013 Tom Lanham of ''

'' described the album as "some of the most mold-breaking alterna-pop around".Lanham, Tom (1998)
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'', June 1998, p. 12. Retrieved 11 November 2013 Andy Gill of ''

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'' called the album "utterly beguiling", commenting on Birch's "cartoonish inflection that paradoxically carries more humanity than most singers' desperate attempts at evoking 'soul'".Gill, Andy (1998)
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'', 3 April 1998. Retrieved 11 November 2013 The band played in the US with

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and in Canada with

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Discography

Albums

*''Slow Dirty Tears'' (1998), Smoke/

Singles

*"Soho" (1997), Rough Trade *"Duck Nonsense" (1998), Smoke *''Mailorder Freak 7" Singles Club May 1998'': "Sitting On Top Of The World"/"We Had A Really Smashing Time" (1998), Kill Rock Stars

References

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