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there's more from me later about my trip to leicester and shall check my friends list in a bit, but for now can i just say that this below is very possibly quietly extraordinary:
i'm not entirely sure, mind, because "your cover's blown" - the very quietly extraordinary thing of which i speak - does sound a little like belle and sebastian trying to muscle in on franz ferdinand territory at times, but i would like to think that playing with FF has if nothing else inspired them to pull their fingers out and create something rather wonderful
see for me belle and sebastian lost any real meaning for me around the time of "legal man" which was belle and sebastian by numbers and "fold your arms you look like a peasant" is STILL the worst album by a band i love (and i mean this even outdoes rubbish like "groovy deco"), and only with "jonathan david" and "storytelling" did they show promise again. "dear catastrophe waitress" was to me the second coming of a band who happened to be called belle and sebastian, but who were much less - um - impassioned but just having fun. doing it bloody well, and it's STILL a great album, but they were never going to MEAN very much to me again. but i was going to enjoy at least whatever they did if they stayed in that vein
and then blow me - along comes "your cover's blown" which is just fantastic. six minutes long, every minute of which is if not great at least a great risk for the band to take and the healthiest evidence that belle and sebastian could once again *mean* something to me and surprise me in the future since i heard the still unrecorded "shoot the sexual athlete". it's very like that song in many ways because it sounds so unlike themselves (by GOD! there's no string sections AT ALL on this ep! WOO HOOO!) that maybe they've stopped trying to please their little comfy fanbase which they will always have and strive for something more
i've got to hear it a few more times to make sure i really *DO* love it but at the moment, it's a quietly stunning attempt at new ground for them. and almost makes me forgive the rubbish video with bog standard indie girls smouldering around a book shop. never mind - can't have it all! one step at a time lads, we'll get you out of the indie boy ghetto before too long
i'm not entirely sure, mind, because "your cover's blown" - the very quietly extraordinary thing of which i speak - does sound a little like belle and sebastian trying to muscle in on franz ferdinand territory at times, but i would like to think that playing with FF has if nothing else inspired them to pull their fingers out and create something rather wonderful
see for me belle and sebastian lost any real meaning for me around the time of "legal man" which was belle and sebastian by numbers and "fold your arms you look like a peasant" is STILL the worst album by a band i love (and i mean this even outdoes rubbish like "groovy deco"), and only with "jonathan david" and "storytelling" did they show promise again. "dear catastrophe waitress" was to me the second coming of a band who happened to be called belle and sebastian, but who were much less - um - impassioned but just having fun. doing it bloody well, and it's STILL a great album, but they were never going to MEAN very much to me again. but i was going to enjoy at least whatever they did if they stayed in that vein
and then blow me - along comes "your cover's blown" which is just fantastic. six minutes long, every minute of which is if not great at least a great risk for the band to take and the healthiest evidence that belle and sebastian could once again *mean* something to me and surprise me in the future since i heard the still unrecorded "shoot the sexual athlete". it's very like that song in many ways because it sounds so unlike themselves (by GOD! there's no string sections AT ALL on this ep! WOO HOOO!) that maybe they've stopped trying to please their little comfy fanbase which they will always have and strive for something more
i've got to hear it a few more times to make sure i really *DO* love it but at the moment, it's a quietly stunning attempt at new ground for them. and almost makes me forgive the rubbish video with bog standard indie girls smouldering around a book shop. never mind - can't have it all! one step at a time lads, we'll get you out of the indie boy ghetto before too long