The sympathetic quintet Pete & The Pirates from Reading already showed on their debut album Little Death (2008) that they know what Britpop is supposed to sound like: with three chords, played on gritty-sounding campfire guitars and with melodic and slightly nagging melodies in which the singer is British. accent thickens. In that respect, One Thousand Pictures continues where Little Death left
… off. Here and there some electronics have been added but this does not impose itself anywhere. What counts are the timeless songs, catchy but never superficial and in which The Kinks as well as The Smiths and Buzzcocks resound. 'Get back into the rhythm of things and come back to the bar' is sung brotherly in Come To The Bar. Pete & The Pirates manage to lure even the greatest worrier into the bar and seduce them to sing along without any concerns.more
