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Sennen, following their recent contribution to Club AC30#4 we give you 'Opened Up My Arms' from their 'Collected Recordings' compilation. Championed by Radio 1's Steve Lamacq, the band have become one of the leaders in the second generation of Shoegazers. Heavily compared to Ride because of their name, although their influences are far closer to Spiritualized meets Teenage Fanclub. Having toured with the likes of The Telescopes, Explosions In The Sky and Six By Seven. Sennen have recently penned a deal to release their debut 'Widows EP' this summer for Hungry Audio.
"First of all, I'd just like to say what a pleasure it is to hear something so refined, inadequately beautiful even, that doesn't just set its stall in the safety zone of elevator orientated pop. It would be downright rude not to mention the fact that Sennen have managed to squeeze a plethora of obvious influences (Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Tim Buckley and Tortoise) into a timeless spate of nuances fit for the most devout black-clad floppy fringed evangelist to religiously stare at one's shoes in adoration. However, to merely dismiss Sennen as erudite copyists would also amount to a copious accusation of missing the point entirely." - Drowned In Sound
"Share your name with someone else's song and you wear their influence on your sleeve - literally. You've a lot to live up to so far as their fans are concerned (It's a risky business - I'm amazed nobody's thumped Komakino yet) but it makes a reviewer's job nice and easy. Having said that, "Opened Up My Arms" sounds a lot less like Ride (it was an obscure B-side anyway - unless there's a fixation with coastal features going on here) than Ride's own oft-cited heroes Spacemen 3. Hammering drums, sleepy-eyed vocals and guitars set to drone, the track's over a minute old before a second chord emerges, and then only briefly. There's a fair dose of early 90s shoegazing about it, but with the smug public-school whimsy that tarnished the lesser bands of that genre replaced by a gritty garage feel. It's a promising start... " - music-dash.co.uk
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