The Contrast

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The excellent Paisley Umbrella blog on MySpace has included Perfect Disguise as one of its top ten albums of 2008. Inexplicably they/he/she still seem to think that The Contrast are from Middlesborough but that it a minor detail. The blog originally reviewed the album back in February 2008 and gave it a suitably [...]

The Out of the Box play list on New York’s classic rock station Q104.3 features “Caught in a Trap” from 2005’s “Forget to Tell the Time” and the more recent compilation “Perfect Disguise“. The track is standing tall amongst some real heavy hitters on the show. I would have paid money to hear The Contrast [...]

The All Music Guide have posted a review of Perfect Disguise: Introducing the Contrast.

The Contrast, Perfect Disguise: Introducing the Contrast ****
While the Contrast haven’t moved enough merchandise either at home in the U.K. or across the pond in the States to truly merit a “greatest-hits” album, Little Steven Van [...]

Perfect Disguise received a glowing review from the Houston Press. Here is it is below:

The Contrast, Perfect Disguise: Introducing the Contrast (Wicked Cool Records)
This guitar-worshipping quartet released their first full-length on Rainbow Quartz in 2000, a year or so after forming, and have studiously submitted four albums since then. Perfect Disguise culls from [...]

I was contacted yesterday by the owner of this site. He puts together playlists based on tracks that are freely available on the Internet. A pretty cool idea I think. Anyway this is what he has to say…

8. The Contrast – Caught In A Trap
Another English band, The Contrast were formed back in 1999 and [...]