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Features Disc of the day
Electric Soft Parade
No Need To Be Downhearted
(Truck, 2007)
Brighton duo mature with doleful pop tapestry. Imagine a drier Zombies on a budget.
The step up from Next Big Thing to Real Deal can seem insuperable, but multi-instrumental brothers Alex and Tom White - whose eager, promising 2002 debut, Holes In The Wall cued an unhappy flirtation with Sony and a spleen-venting interlude as The Brakes - have got there in the end. Full of regret, hard-won wisdom and DIY pop artistry, No Need To Be Downhearted transcends bog-standard indie to build a world of sophisticated melody and ingenious arrangements, encompassing alterna-Broadway gumption (Life In The Backseat), Tahiti 80-style sunshine pop (Misunderstanding), and exquisitely lachrymose minimalism (Secrets). Muted brass, Ben Folds joanna, ELO synth showers and Left Banke harmonies belie the record's home-studio genesis, plonking ESP in the van of a modest progressive pop renaissance recently hinted at by Field Music and The Earlies. Medicinal stuff in these days of reductive riffing and school play rock'n'roll deportment.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 28/11/2007
Further Listening
Field Music – Tones Of Town (Memphis Industries, 2007)
The Earlies – These Were The Earlies (679, 2004)
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Electric_soft_parade.. Nifty :)
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