Music Review

Music Review: 'Saturnalia' (1996)

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: The Wedding Present; Genre: Rock

Neither as tuneful and memorable as 1994's Watusi or as curious as last year's tossed-off Mini Plus EP, Saturnalia, the latest from Leeds shoe gazers The Wedding Present, finds their characteristically resigned frontman David Gedge emoting the kind of nostalgic laments and pained would-be manifestos designed for recitation in front of a bedroom mirror. Once again, though, his pain is our pleasure. B

Originally posted Nov 29, 1996 Published in issue #355 Nov 29, 1996 Order article reprints

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