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As I listened to this eponymous EP from US outfit The Touques I am ashamed to say my first thought was that they sounded pretty amateurish. The guitars sounded too loud, there were tuning issues all over the place and the whole thing sounded like one big mess. But then about halfway through the record something happened; I "got" what The Touques were doing. Quite frankly, this record is just mad enough to work. Since coming to this realisation I've had the EP on repeat constantly and it gets more and more enjoyable with every listen. [...]

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