The Cooper Temple Clause - Promises, Promises

What this video is

Released 1 September 2003 on Morning Records, 'Promises, Promises' arrived at the apex of the UK's post-millennial guitar-band renaissance — a moment when acts like The Strokes, Muse, and Radiohead were providing the aesthetic DNA for a new generation of British acts pushing electronica and rock into collision. The Cooper Temple Clause occupied a critically admired but commercially underdog position: NME nominees…

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A key artefact of the UK indietronica-rock crossover of 2003, 'Promises, Promises' demonstrates the era's synthesis of abrasive guitar riffing with electronic texture and studio production ambition. Compared by critics to Muse's anthemic aggression and The Strokes' riff economy, the track and its…