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THE TEMPONAUTS - would’ve easily found their way up to the toppermost of the poppermost, had they only released their album sometime during the first half of the ‘90s. Mixing equal parts of Paisley Underground’s most melodic ingredients (think The Three O’Clock), the slightlydelic twang of The Stone Roses and The Bluetones, along with the legacy of the Byrds. To provide an even better argument for the cover art’s resemblance to Big Brother’s debut, there’s also a pair of less jangly and more r’n’b based rockers such as ‘Not in the morning’ or ‘Operation: Coroner’.

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*TEMPONAUTS – A MILLION YEAR PICNIC

The debut album by Piacenza's finest. This disc will come as a very pleasant surprise to those into the jingle-jangle sound of The Byrds, melodic powerpop, neo-psychedelia and the Paisley Underground. And some of you will probably discover echoes of 90’s Britpop as well. All in all a mighty enjoyable album by a talented Italian band.

Stoned Circus (Francia)

[...]A Million Year Picnic è un discone, di quelli che a sentirli ti suona

quasi strano che sia stato fatto da una band italiana, tanto sa di “straniero”.

Un mish-mash fresco e filologico di Sixties pop, con una manciata di psichedelia light, una spruzzata di paysley, qualche tocco di garage e un filino di indie.Tutto molto focalizzato, compatto e omogeneo: la band ha sicuramente le idee più che chiare e si muove lungo percorsi che conosce approfonditamente[...]

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