Proper Order – Reviews

METRO Newspaper, Thurs 21st May, 2009

Proper Order
1969records
Review by Eamon de Paor  **** 4/5 stars

From the unexpected return of Blur  to the surprisingly convincing resurrection of Take That and Boyzone, 1990s nostalgia is heavy in the air at the moment – so it’s probably as good a time as ever for The Pale to release the best album of their career.

Still dogged by the ‘wacky’ tag that has followed them since their once inescapable 1992 hit Dogs with no Tails, the Dublin four-piece long ago grew into a more mature and interesting proposition (without abandoning that trademark mandolin) – and Proper Order offers irrefutable proof that sometimes musicians are at their most articulate in their autumn years. Read more »