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Stars of CCTV by Hard-Fi

Published July 11, 2025

Stars of CCTV by Hard-Fi

Album info

  • Title Stars of CCTV
  • Artist Hard-Fi
  • Year 2005
  • Genre Alternative

Tracklist

  1. Cash Machine
  2. Middle Eastern Holiday
  3. Tied Up Too Tight
  4. Gotta Reason
  5. Hard to Beat
  6. Unnecessary Trouble
  7. Move On Now
  8. Better Do Better
  9. Feltham is Singing Out
  10. Living for the Weekend
  11. Stars of CCTV
  12. Seven Nation Army
  13. Stronger

Thoughts

I used to like Hard-Fi when this album was first out, so it’s slightly distressing to know it’s celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Ouch. But it’s great to revisit this music, that quirky early millennium sound that is quite hard to describe but is just guitars and angst and just enough experimentation but not too much. I don’t really rate the cover of Seven Nation Army towards the end of the album but the rest of it is great, nostalgic without sounding too dated.

Rating: 4 / 5

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