Country: UK
Artist: Band
Career: debut album
Language: English
Genre: 60s soft pop
Fey pop lusting after ‘60s sophisticated pop’s immaculate shine lives. But forget about Belle and Sebastian, whose 2000 album didn’t cut it. Here’s the real deal straight from the street where the hospital is where a teenage boy spends the prime of his life and his girlfriend (who’s destined for a great career as a war reporter) just broke up with him, over the phone. And there will be no visitors until tomorrow. This doesn’t get as raw and noisy as a Byrds jangle. Sterling Morrison playing melodies on a Velvet Underground ballad maybe, a teenage band copying Zombies and Left Banke licks in their garage. It’s a sacred art, only us, sensitive male music fans, can understand. All yearning boy growing into man singing, just enough echo to disguise the rudimentary settings (no matter, you can hear the strings in your head just as easily). The album collects a bunch of 7” singles and b-sides from 1997-2000 with a couple of new ones thrown in – just like albums were made in the mid-60s really. A lesson well-learned. In a fight with any of their peers they’d surely lose, and that’s why they’re the best.
At its best: I had to say this, Reflections after Jane, Saturday, Bicycles, As night is falling
Artist: Band
Career: debut album
Language: English
Genre: 60s soft pop
Fey pop lusting after ‘60s sophisticated pop’s immaculate shine lives. But forget about Belle and Sebastian, whose 2000 album didn’t cut it. Here’s the real deal straight from the street where the hospital is where a teenage boy spends the prime of his life and his girlfriend (who’s destined for a great career as a war reporter) just broke up with him, over the phone. And there will be no visitors until tomorrow. This doesn’t get as raw and noisy as a Byrds jangle. Sterling Morrison playing melodies on a Velvet Underground ballad maybe, a teenage band copying Zombies and Left Banke licks in their garage. It’s a sacred art, only us, sensitive male music fans, can understand. All yearning boy growing into man singing, just enough echo to disguise the rudimentary settings (no matter, you can hear the strings in your head just as easily). The album collects a bunch of 7” singles and b-sides from 1997-2000 with a couple of new ones thrown in – just like albums were made in the mid-60s really. A lesson well-learned. In a fight with any of their peers they’d surely lose, and that’s why they’re the best.
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