Name: Word Gets Around
Brand: Stereophonics

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Catalogue number

5714428

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-12-02

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Supplier GB

Universal

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Standard:20

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0602557144284

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Stereophonics

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

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Stereophonics is a rock band hailing from Cwmaman, South Wales. Formed in 1992, the band consists of Kelly Jones on vocals, guitars, and piano; Richard Jones on bass; Jamie Morrison on drums; and Adam Zindani on guitar and vocals. The band has had previous members including Stuart Cable on drums and percussion from 1992 to 2003 (who sadly passed away in 2010) and Javier Weyler on drums, percussion, and backing vocals from 2004 to 2012.

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After the release of Word Gets Around, the Stereophonics blistering debut album, word did, indeed, get around, and rightly so. Firm adherents to the philosophy of "write what you know", Kelly Jones escaped the rural Welsh village of his upbringing and unleashed his remarkable songwriting talent on a world outside the valleys. The album title encapsulates its content perfectly - canny small-town observations rooted in real-life experience and drama. The setting is so insular that the rumours, gossip and stories have nothing to do but buzz round from lip to lip, reverberating off the surrounding mountains.

Whereas contemporaries such as Super Furry Animals or Oasis may have exuded a more escapist vibe in their early songs, Jones immerses himself in the everyday events of small-town life and admirably demonstrates an unconditional love for the place he grew up. Possessing an ability to say so much with so few words, his songs are as emotive as they are mosh-inducing, nowhere more aptly demonstrated than in "Local Boy in the Photograph", delivered with the kind of rusty-hacksaw vocal that belongs to Satan himself. Balancing this seriousness is a fine line in subtle humour, as displayed on the customer-service frustrations of "More Life in a Tramp's Vest".

Word Gets Around

Music GB

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