Feel good hits of the 27th February
1. 'Lawncare' - Women
2. 'Fossil, I' - Sky Larkin
3. 'Plaster Casts Of Everything' - Liars
4. 'Out Of Sight' - Spiritualized
5. 'Tell The World' - Vivian Girls
6. 'Never Stops' - Deerhunter
7. 'Panther Party' - Truckers Of Husk
8. 'I'm Here Now' - The Drones
9. 'The Only One' - The Cure
10. '(Do Not Feed The) Oyster' - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Notes:
1. After initial doubts (the brilliant 'Black Rice' aside), I'm definitely starting to get an ear for the ladies...
2. They may hail from Leeds, but they don't 'arf do that early 90s US college rock thang well.
3. A single unearthed the other day as a consequence of the house move. I don't remember ever having listened to it before - and lordy is it fine. The video's quite something, too - if somewhat NSFW.
4. "A bit of a slow starter"? Well, yes, but some time in the last week Let It Come Down has hit me full between the eyes. Fantastic album - and, as I suspected, better than Songs In A&E in every respect.
5. So simple, so sloppy - and yet somehow really good.
7. A recent earworm as a result of the SWSL Best Of 2008 that I've finally got round to putting together for anyone who wants a copy - do you?
8. Weird, isn't it, how you can get hold of a band's latest album (in this case Havilah) and yet feel the need to go back to their last (Gala Mill) before giving the new one the opportunity it deserves?
9. Through a combination of skintness, knackeredness and illness I've spent the last three Friday nights in the company of Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross, as Jen and I have regressed to our regular routine of two and a bit years ago. Two weeks ago I was left cold by both Morrissey's new single 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris' and a very stodgy version of 'This Charming Man', whereas last week his contemporaries The Cure impressed with 'The Only One'. Tonight it was U2 - needless to say, we'd turned off before they struck a note.
10. The process of re-evaluating Malkmus's solo albums continues apace. Pig Lib is the one album I've really not got into, but that may yet change.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Glad that Let It Come Down has finally hit home. It took an even longer length of time for me. It's only really revealed it's full beauty in the last 18 months, which considering I bought it on the day it was released in 2001, is quite something. Which is why I'm warey of dismissing Songs in A&E quite yet. We'll see how I feel about it in 2016...
There are two reasons I find Songs In A&E disappointing:
1. The songs just aren't as strong as their forebears. They've done much better slow gospelly songs, and as for the Stonesy garage blues the likes of 'The Twelve Steps' blows 'You Lie You Cheat' out of the water.
2. The interludes irritate me by seeming to get in the way of the flow of the album. A bit strange, as I really like the structure and all the interludes of Pure Phase, but there you go.
Still, as you say, perhaps it needs a bit of distance to be fully appreciated. And I should also say that I only think it's a bad album relative to their previous output.
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