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'All Too Human'
One of 2007's most adventurous and finest debuts
GUARDIAN

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This self-titled gem is a huge triumph
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"Dark, dirty, drugged and downright sexy 'The Flies' manage to walk a very thin line between tried and tested nights of mid-nineties house party excess' and an incredible talent to draw a very relevant present into a fast approaching future." Gigwise

"One of 2007's most adventurous and finest debuts" THE GUARDIAN

"Captivating" THE INDEPENDENT

"Like The Velvets on a David Lynch set." NME

"In a world of Kaiser Chiefs, James Blunts and Hard Fi's, The Flies have injected a breath of fresh air into music...the best UK debut album of the year." XFM

"This album is tailor made for dark alley dwelling delinquents and their equally dark desires. Sultry and sordid crooning boosted sounds that are perfect for both those between the sheets or between a rock and a hard place. Whatever situation you're in, be it between the sheets or two sheets to the wind, this LP will appropriately haunt you, having stirred that deeply buried inner slither of desire of yours from the first listen." Glasswerk


"I can honestly say there is nothing else quite like this out there in our cosmos, its incredible originality is only matched by its mesmerising allure and polished perfection.Whether smoking yourself horizontal or vertical and rising, whether entering or about to be entered, this is the album to do it to." ENTERTAINMENTFOCUS.COM

"If talent alone decided the music chart positions, then The Flies would easily hold the record for being top of the charts for the longest time" WELIKECLUBBING.COM

"The Flies sound is what the music industry has desperately been begging for since the uprise of soft indie music, which produced an overflow of copycat substandard groups. We are still in the hangover era of The Libertines, so it's about time that someone shook things up a bit. Thank God someone has had the balls to do it!" MUSIC-NEWS.COM

"All Too Human is a dark, brooding and classy collection that deserves to be heard" ENTERTAINMENTMANCHESTER.COM

"Sounds like one of the classics that should have been in everyone's collection for the past thirty years...[The Flies] come across as a gloriously spaced out version of The Doors. SUBBACULTCHA

"A darkly haunting but timelessly beautiful collection of songs" SOUNDFREAK.CO.UK

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The Flies - latest review of 'All too Human' Jan 8

by Gemma Padley
04 January 2008
In these pick and mix musical times with the steady demise of the album, LPs as 'works of art' are increasingly rare. Fortunately there are a handful of bands that refuse to succumb to the MP3 downloading whitewash. Bristol three-piece The Flies, led by former Lupine Howl frontman and long serving member of Spiritualized, Sean Cook, have created an album that is as much an artistic entity as it is a collection of individually compelling songs.
All Too Human is brazenly sexual and painfully beautiful in equal measure. Opening track and single "Walking On The Sand" is steeped in mystery. With threatening undertones it tiptoes along dank corridors, prowling and expectant, brimming with suppressed emotion %u2013 the perfect start to a sexually charged album where what is left unheard is as important as the audible instrumental textures.
Cook and co. leave room for the imagination to run free. "Bitter Moon" with its Lennon-esque piano riff and echoey vocal is spine-tingling and captivating, while "Chills" returns to an elegiac soundscape following a brief detour for the unapologetically brash "High". More predatory and provocative tracks include "The Temptress", and "My Pleasure". Drenched in Sixties psychedelic sex-appeal, the latter slips and slides in an hypnotic trance, while "The Temptress" adopts a kinky samba inspired pizzicato figure as strings loop seductively round the breathy vocal %u2013 the aural equivalent of endless twisting legs.
The Flies tread a fine line between sizzling sexuality and inane pastiche, and not every track rings true; "The Elements" takes the seductive style a step too far and lacks climactic sparkle. But the majority of songs form a unique filmic tapestry. Interestingly, the strength of All Too Human lies in its softer moments; the startlingly Floydian 'One Of Them' is an arresting finale. As albums become more and more scarce, it is reassuring to hear such a daringly creative LP as this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/q2w6/

'HIGH' Directed by Julien Temple

'The Temptress'

Walking on the Sand ....unplugged

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• Tim Norfolk - Electric & Acoustic guitars keyboards percussion

• Bob Locke - Bass keyboards piano guitar percussion drums backing vocals

• Sean Cook - Vocals harmonica bass guitar percussion

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  All Too Human

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  The Flies