It's gorgeous, this. Home recorded super smart indie-pop, manned by 2 boys and steered into heart warming, soul stirring territory by Carol Keogh, a lady blessed with some utterly sublime vocal chords. Sublime seems an apt word to spread across this whole release actually, the attention to detail and the quality of sound is superbly intricate throughout, spindly guitars weave patterns around gently pressing drum machine patterns, live strings are meshed with splashes of gorgeous mellotron, and that voice lends a huge dollop of world weary heartache to the whole puzzle.
Opener Halfmast declares that 'Part of me was a sea shanty' and 'I'm as empty as pockets' before settling into an utterly intoxicating coda of sound, and the feeling that you're listening to something a little special doesn't let up til you get to the closing Now Here. References to the likes of The Notwist and Pinback can be sloppily bandied about but the longer this record plays out the cheaper such comparisons seem to become. A superb first offering.
03 June, 2003
Opener Halfmast declares that 'Part of me was a sea shanty' and 'I'm as empty as pockets' before settling into an utterly intoxicating coda of sound, and the feeling that you're listening to something a little special doesn't let up til you get to the closing Now Here. References to the likes of The Notwist and Pinback can be sloppily bandied about but the longer this record plays out the cheaper such comparisons seem to become. A superb first offering.
03 June, 2003
Happy Easter!
