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| Ugly mofos wear bad threads, cut swell album! |
Run, don't walk, to your friendly neighborhood record shoppe and give the counter jockey whatever he demands for this swell recording! Do not haggle, carp, or prevaricate. Ignore the shit sleeve on account which you can look at this one [above - Ed.] instead.
The loaddown is @ a Greta Thunberg approved 192, and if you're not rolling around on the floor in a warm soup of your own goo by the end of the first track - or even a few seconds in - you may wish to consider that perhaps music is not for you. This doesn't make you a bad person. Maybe you could try quilting?
Swellness overload!
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This is solid!
ReplyDeleteI like how they wear their influences on their sleeves, and yet still sound original.
That is EXACTLY the secret of their success. All the references are recognisable, yet none is a direct copy or pastiche. There's a fantastic positive spirit in this record - they clearly had a ball making it.
DeleteHmm.. not sure what I'm downloading!!.. but, I trust that your taste in music (most of the time) is per-ritty similar to mine!! I'll riskit for a biskit!! Oh, 'n it's FREE!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's what you might term pop-rock. Memorably melodic, complex yet unfussy arrangements, quality vox in good harmony, variety, generally upbeat, danceable, with all the 60s/70s influences upfront. Critics sneer about this, saying that as a result the band lacks "an individual voice" but critics are paid to write shit. Unentertaining shit, at that.
DeleteAlso - nothing pandemic here. No lo-fi meditations on loss, grieving - all the things that today's music critics admire. Just a bunch of good tunes.
Thanks Farq - really enjoying this!! No quilting for me!!
DeleteGotta say this is one of my favorite finds in the House Of Foam, Thanks for sharing this great find ! Ned
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Ned! Please do buy the record if you have some money, as they don't.
DeleteNever heard of 'em, but they sound pretty good. No info can I find, please fill me in...
ReplyDeleteThey are Welsh, from Wales, which is like a county or department of England. It rains continuously, and alcohol is illegal (which is why a staggering 110% of the male population is alcoholic). The menfolk are all out of work since the coalmines closed, and rely on handouts from their generous English landlords. The menfolk traditionally take sheep as their brides, and the womenfolk spin doilies out of wool, and wear stovepipe hats. Only womenfolk from Tiger Bay are comely, and they generally get a steamship to the New World to find a husband who has a job and isn't romantically involved with livestock. This is all I know - hope it helps!
DeleteOh - the Welsh have an international reputation for miserliness, which is unfair, as they have no money. Similarly their reputation for being work-shy rests on their being no jobs. It remains a mystery how they are drunk all the time, even when asleep.
DeleteTheir language is based on not being able to spell English words correctly ("ambwlans" for "ambulance", e.g.), and they have a yearly festival of traditional Welsh poetry and song which lasts for three months and results in the deaths of many attendees and performers. The Prince Of Wales is much venerated and portraits hang in every house by law.
Oh - all the menfolk all called "Dai", to avoid confusion.
DeleteThe locals would also like you to know that although the character of Rhiannon was taken from Welsh literature, the people of Wales bear absolutely no responsibility for anything ever written or sung by Stevie Nicks.
Delete"Rhiannon" is Welsh for "rainin'" (which it does all the time).
DeleteThanks for the enlightenment! More semi-useful info to clog my brain.
DeleteI thought the band was called CYC from their logo. If you're Polish, that's an odd name for a band...
ReplyDeleteThanks Farq for all these facts about the Welsh. I must admit to enjoying some Welsh music, particular favorites are Man (The Welsh GD), Budgie (one of several bands to have invented Heavy Metal in the UK), Super Furry Animals (fab 90's weird pop), and more recently Hen Ogledd (I don't know what they are). I've seen them all live and really enjoyed them, so I look forward to this swellness overload, by Dai and the other five.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, like the sound of this. I will look out for them, I believe they're doing some gigs, maybe they'll come near enough for me to make the effort to see them?
DeleteBeing part Welsh and having no quilting skills to speak of I feel obligated to download this -- thank you!
ReplyDeleteI've welshed on a bet or two, and let out wails when I'm hurt. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteGive yourself a name!
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