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| | Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | But they might seem like a rather mainstream proposition for the defiantly left-field Triptych festival, and when confronted with this quintet of shuffling Welsh effusive charmers, you’d be forgiven for thinking they weren’t wayward musical masterminds, but a bunch of roofers here to do some work on your shingles. |
 | | Speaking face-to-face with singer/guitarist Gruff Rhys – a man so languidly spoken, that you fear he may fall asleep before he finishes a sentence – reveals they are a shrewd bunch who have survived the grinding music industry machine for the past eight years by operating, wherever possible, outside of it. |
 | | Then there’s their own record label, Placid Casual, and the album they made in their native Welsh, Mwng, which is something of an unsung classic. |
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