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The Music

Alongside the likes of The Coral and The Beta Band, The Music were billed as British guitar music's latest saviours when they emerged in 1999 as a gangly gang of 18-year-olds, kicking out an exciting brand of euphoric, psychedelic, post-Brit pop, indie rock. Led by lank-haired front man Robert Harvey, the Leeds schoolfriends were declared the best unsigned band in the country by the NME and Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamaq on the strength of their demo track Take The Long Road and Walk It, before debut album The Music (2002) shot to Number 4 in the UK charts. Their swaggering, baggy, shoeg...