Tom McRae

[iainjclark]

I'm addicted to Tom McRae. It started small - just the first album. Okay, strike that, it started big - just the first album. I liked it after one listen, loved it after two, then we put it on repeat play in the car and never looked back. I'm expecting the album's third child shortly.

Comments

[coalescent]

First off: all three albums are good.

If I had to rank them, I'd go Just Like Blood > Debut >> All Maps Welcome.

The only reason I can give for that is colour. Just Like Blood kinda peters out after 'Karaoke Soul', but before that the songs are all great, and they feel that bit more diverse than the debut. Much as I love 'Second Law' and 'Bloodless' (and 'A & B Song' :p ), they do get just a tiny bit samey after several consecutive listens. I don't get that from the stuff off the second album.

And if you want to hear a more mainstream Mcrae, pick up album three...

Also, never let Su hear you say that Whatever and Ever Amen is one of your favourite albums. :)

[veggiesu]

Also, never let Su hear you say that Whatever and Ever Amen is one of your favourite albums. :)

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[iainjclark]

Do tell.

[veggiesu]

Let's just say that you've not really heard that album until you've heard it screeched out in hideous falsetto by two hyperactive dorkboys in a confined space from which there is no escape at one o'clock in the morning.

[iainjclark]

I'm going off the album already.

[coalescent]

I'd say we were more squawking than screeching, to be honest.

[iainjclark]

Well, that certainly makes all the difference.

[veggiesu]

It's entirely possible - I'm desperately trying to repress the memories :-p

[majuran]

With accompaniment on the car horn... (which I might have imagined considering I was in and out of sleep at the time... brain defence mechanism kicking in?)

[veggiesu]

No, you didn't imagine it. And if you think you can recall the car swerving around the road because the driver has started drumming on the dashboard rather than steering - well, you didn't imagine that either.

*begins rocking back and forth*