''Sebastopol Rd.'' is an album by the English band
Mega City Four
Mega City Four were an English indie rock band formed in Farnborough, Hampshire, who obtained popularity throughout the late 1980s and 1990s.
Mega City Four consisted of guitarist and vocalist Wiz, his brother and rhythm guitarist Danny Brown, ...
, released in 1992. It was the band's only album to be released in the United States; they supported it with a North American tour.
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Production
Produced by Jessica Corcoran, ''Sebastopol Rd.'' was recorded at Greenhouse Studios, in England.[
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Critical reception
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'' wrote that "acoustic strums ... abound, over which the singer vents optimism, experience and, most of all, poignant disillusionment ... A rough-edged pop classic."The Washington Post
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'' called the album "likable, unpretentious stuff, less stylized than is typical of most young British bands," writing that it "offers 12 bristling but tuneful songs, economical mid-tempo rockers that balance Danny Brown's and Wiz's tart guitars with the quartet's semi-sweet backing vocals."The Gazette
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'' opined that "punk energy begets melodic hooks as Mega City Four grows up a bit."
Legacy
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noted: "Heard from ten years' distance, ''Sebastopol Rd.'' is at once comfortably obvious and weirdly prescient. While Wiz's high, impassioned vocals weren't emo per se—and he was always careful to sing rather than scream—there's a weird way in how the 12 songs almost predict the future without trying to."[ In 2013, '']Record Collector
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'' deemed it "an indie-pop gem with punk overtones."
Track listing
References
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1992 albums
Caroline Records albums